Determine FreeBSD version of binary

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:16:38PM +0100, John Smith wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2007 6:59 PM, Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > May be not entirely correct, but close:
> >
> > ldd binary | grep libc.so
> >
> 
> Yes, that helps somewhat. At least I now know that it's FreeBSD 4.x.
> And before I again forget something I forgot to mention earlier on: I
> also have a file called 'kernel'. Could that somehow give somewhat
> more detailed information about exactly which 4.x kernel it is, and if
> so, how would I go about doing that ?

The command 'strings kernel | grep "^@(#)FreeBSD"' should do the trick.

Roland
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