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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:08:06 -0500 (EST)
From:      Spike <spork@startrekmail.com>
To:        Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uname -a
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903211507480.328-100000@nyc-ny78-59.ix.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990321194234.HTNW4977319.mta2-rme@wocker>

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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Dan Langille wrote:

> 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?
> 

How many times you have compiled this kernel. 

> --
> Dan Langille
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