Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:15:52 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracking base system and kernel updates/vulnerabilities Message-ID: <20080417081552.GB96568@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <5333CCB7-19A1-4EA3-BAAE-7771DAF19A53@gmail.com> References: <A6A15CCD-212C-48D8-8B59-05C296434E86@gmail.com> <44tzi36kgx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <5333CCB7-19A1-4EA3-BAAE-7771DAF19A53@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:20:00AM +0200, Anselm Strauss wrote: [...] > - Can I somehow determine the version of the base system without > running uname on the kernel (I could have a release base system but > run a stable kernel for example)? Sure, I could take the indirect way > over freebsd-update again, but is there some sort of version > information stored in the base system? Not really. Incidentally, running a userland out-of-sync with the kernel is asking for Bad-Things(tm) to happen. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed
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