Re: Checking for kernel freshness
On 2012-04-12 17:59 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> The hard part seems to be matching the running kernel against the
> version installed. I cannot figure out a good way so far. Nothing in the
> running kernel seems to show the Debian version (i.e.
> 2.6.32-41squeeze2), thus I cannot compare it. It is printed in the
> bootup messages
>
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-39squeeze1)
> (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Mon Jan
> 9 20:49:59 UTC 2012
>
> but that might be long gone when I check. I could not find this version
> string in /proc or /sys yet.
It's in /proc/version.
Cheers,
Sven
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