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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: "Stephen P. Cravey" <clists@gotbrains.org>
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Subject: Re: Determining version of uninstalled kernel?
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:02:28PM -0600, Stephen P. Cravey wrote:
> Is there a facility for determining the version of a kernel that has
> been built but not installed? I am working on a script to pre-build new
> versions of FreeBSD by checking newvers.conf against uname, but i would
> also like to be able to verify that the version in /usr/obj is not the
> same as in newvers.conf. Otherwise, my script would just continue to
> rebuild everything needlessly.

Try strings or ident.

Kris

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