uname question after update

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Jan 15 18:42:16 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:37:19AM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote:
> I have two boxes I've updated so far to 6.2.
> 
> uname -a returns two different strings:
> 
> 
> FreeBSD box1.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 
> 20:01:29 PST 2007     root at box1.mydomain.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
> FreeBSD box2.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #4: Sat Jan 13 
> 15:40:40 PST 2007     root at box2.chapman.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
> 
> What does the #0 / #4 mean?

The number of times you have recompiled your kernel.

Kris
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