From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 23 12:50:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 158F51514A for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:50:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max5-45.gbis.net [207.228.61.109]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11849; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:50:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA60711; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:50:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <156801bf65e3$7649e8c0$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Eli Shauriki (Intl Agency)" , "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Please advise... Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:50:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I have 8 pairs of FreeBSD client-server in my lab. I need to find out the >installed FreeBSD version in order to know which machines I need to upgrade. >I spent our on your web site seeking answer, but no luck... >Please tell me, how can I find such an information like which version is >installed? uname -v You'll get an output similar to this: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #17: Sun Dec 19 22:22:51 PST 1999 root@pandora.home:/usr/src/sys/compile/PANDORA Tells you version number, #of times you've compiled the kernel since original installation, the date the kernel was compiled, who compiled it, and what the compile directory was. Of course, if you have an unaltered /etc/rc script, you also get most of this info as part of the 'message of the day' whenever you login... --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message