This one time, at band camp, Peter Palfrader said: > 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". This one time, at band camp, Noah Meyerhans said: > I compare the ctime of the kernel image on the system with the machine's > uptime. It's the machine's been rebooted since the kernel image > changed, we're up to date, otherwise we're still running an older > kernel. The attached shell script shows how. You should be able to do > this with a nagios check... I also do some rummaging around to figure out what the meta package is currently depending on, so that I know what vesion Debian currently considers newest, then compare that to /proc/version. That only works for etch and newer kernel images, though, so I think I'll fall back to Noah's method for older machines. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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