Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1565-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities
On Mon, 05 May 2008, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 20080504232555.GE9909@anguilla.noreply.org> you wrote:
> > Apropos. Is there a way to get that information from a vmlinuz file on
> > disk? Without booting it, that is.
>
> Interesting enough my (somewhat older) file command does only print "x86
> boot sector", but I think some magic files supported it. Otherwise you can
> use "strings vmlinux | fgrep 2."
>
> I usually use the file name to describe it.
debian.org kernel packages don't however. Which makes it not exactly
suiteable for a nagios check for "is the running kernel the one on the
fileystem".
Sure, strings | grep works, but that's quite .. ugly and at least gives
the impression of being fragile.
Peter
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