Re: Checking for kernel freshness
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> 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
>
> Try this:
>
> $ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-41squeeze2) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 05:20:33 UTC 2012
God damnit. I was looking in /proc/sys/kernel and /sys/kernel, but not
in /proc/version. Thanks! :-(
Bernhard
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