Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:35:07 -0000 From: lrenfrow <lrenfrow@arcomnet.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel Name Issues Message-ID: <20030925183347.GA778@merlin.bsdhound.com>
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Greetings FreeBSD Gods, I've read though much documentation and I seem to be having some issues with a problem. With all the latest security advisories going twords FreeBSD lately I wanted to ensure I was on the correct release so I ran a uname -a and was presented with an output of: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Sep 2 22:25:29 EDT 2003 Now this raises some concern for me. I had cvsup'ed the latest sources this morning and UPDATING says p8 I've performed the build operations stated in the handbook and in /usr/src/UPDATING which are: remove /usr/obj/ Make buildworld Make buildkernel Make installkernel Make installworld Mergemaster stuff All these operations complete successfully with no error. My cvs-supfile is: *default host=cvsup11.freebsd.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_1 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all I've tried cvsuping the latest GENERIC kernel and building and installing that with no success.. Sysctl gives this about the release. kern.ostype: FreeBSD kern.version: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Sep 2 22:25:29 EDT 2003 the /boot/kernel directories all have the correct date stamp drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6144 Sep 25 12:22 kernel drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6144 Sep 25 10:08 kernel.old So why is this not updating.. It's still on a old kernel. I've tried both methods of building a kernel Cd /usr/src ; make buildkernel KERNCONF=NAME Make installkernel KERNCONF=NAME And the cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ ; config NAME && cd ../compile/NAME ; make depend && make && make install Still no success.. There's nothing in the sysctl or rc.conf that would restrict this from happening and I had set the fstab file w/ no restrictions. I've don't this a million times and have never had this problem. It appears though it really is on p8 but is not updating the uname display.. But i'm no programmer and i'm unsure how that portion of the OS gets changed.. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
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