From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 11:41:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90BD4151EC for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 11:41:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990321194234.HTNW4977319.mta2-rme@wocker> for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 07:42:34 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 07:41:16 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: uname -a Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990321194234.HTNW4977319.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG uname -a gives the following on one of my machines: FreeBSD kennett.freebsddiary.cx 3.1-19990318-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-19990318- STABLE #3: Thu Mar 18 09:03:30 NZDT 1999 root@kennett.freebsddiary.cx:/usr/src/sys/compile/KENNETT i386 By looking at man uname, I can see that "3.1-19990318-STABLE" is the current release (uname -r). uname -v gives this: FreeBSD 3.1-19990318-STABLE #3: Thu Mar 18 09:03:30 NZDT 1999 root@kennett.freebsddiary.cx:/usr/src/sys/compile/KENNETT In the above is the name of the user that compiled the kernel and the name of the kernel. But what's that #3? On another machine I get "FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE #0: Wed Mar 3 21:11:33 NZDT 1999" which is just another snapshot of -stable as far as I can tell. What does the #n denote? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message