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On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Jay Chandler wrote:
> FreeBSD box1.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri  
> Jan 12 20:01:29 PST 2007     root@box1.mydomain.com:/usr/obj/usr/ 
> src/sys/SMP  i386
> FreeBSD box2.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #4: Sat  
> Jan 13 15:40:40 PST 2007     root@box2.chapman.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/ 
> sys/SMP  i386
>
> What does the #0 / #4 mean?

The number of times you have rebuilt the kernel.

(This number gets reset when the OS version gets bumped, I believe.)

-- 
-Chuck