From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 12:12:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nyc-ny77-54.ix.netcom.com (nyc-ny77-54.ix.netcom.com [209.109.228.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A918814D1E for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:11:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@startrekmail.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by nyc-ny77-54.ix.netcom.com (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA03387; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:08:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@startrekmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: nyc-ny77-54.ix.netcom.com: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:08:06 -0500 (EST) From: Spike X-Sender: spork@nyc-ny78-59.ix.netcom.com Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uname -a In-Reply-To: <19990321194234.HTNW4977319.mta2-rme@wocker> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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 > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com Finger gronimw@shell.stuy.edu for PGP public key. The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message