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Christopher Lane colane at inteliport.com
Fri May 6 08:48:47 PDT 2005


Hi,

Simple question: how can I tell what version of the system binaries I'm 
running?  Flame-proofing follows.

Searches on this mailing list and google tell me 'uname -a' is the 
ticket, but that doesn't seem to get what I want.  Here's the testing 
I've done.

* Install 5.3 from cd on two machines
* CVSup /usr/src on both to 5.4-STABLE
* On box #1, I configure/upgrade just the kernel (using the "old way")
* On box #2, I do the entire 'make buildworld' through 'mergemaster' as 
per handbook section 19.4

My understanding is that on box #1 I'm running a 5.4 kernel with 5.3 
system binaries (which is a bad thing to do).  Box #2 is 5.4 for both. 
Here's the uname output for both boxes:

box #1: FreeBSD name.domain 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Thu Apr 21 
12:02:07 EDT 2005 user at name.domain:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/FIREWALL  i386

box #2: FreeBSD name.domain 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri May  6 
09:46:40 EDT 2005 user at name.domain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDBOX  i386

I know the first box has 5.3 binaries, but uname -a doesn't indicate 
that.  So how can I tell the first box has mismatched kernel/userspace?

Chris


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