What's the #-number from uname -a?

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Sun Apr 15 13:07:59 UTC 2007


Dan Nelson writes:

>  >  ..on both machines, one says 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2' and 
>  >  the other says 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #6'.
>  > 
>  >  What does the number after the #-sign mean?
>  
>  It's the number of times you have rebuilt your kernel.

	... with that particular kernel code base.


				Robert Huff


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