Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:08:06 -0500 (EST) From: Spike <spork@startrekmail.com> To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uname -a Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903211507480.328-100000@nyc-ny78-59.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <19990321194234.HTNW4977319.mta2-rme@wocker>
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > uname -a gives the following on one of my machines: > > FreeBSD kennett.freebsddiary.cx 3.1-19990318-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-19990318- > STABLE #3: Thu Mar 18 09:03:30 NZDT 1999 > root@kennett.freebsddiary.cx:/usr/src/sys/compile/KENNETT i386 > > > By looking at man uname, I can see that "3.1-19990318-STABLE" is the > current release (uname -r). > > uname -v gives this: > > FreeBSD 3.1-19990318-STABLE #3: Thu Mar 18 09:03:30 NZDT 1999 > root@kennett.freebsddiary.cx:/usr/src/sys/compile/KENNETT > > In the above is the name of the user that compiled the kernel and the name > of the kernel. > > But what's that #3? On another machine I get "FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE #0: Wed > Mar 3 21:11:33 NZDT 1999" which is just another snapshot of -stable as > far as I can tell. > > What does the #n denote? > How many times you have compiled this kernel. > -- > Dan Langille > The FreeBSD Diary > http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com Finger gronimw@shell.stuy.edu for PGP public key. The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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