Versions issues
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Wed May 25 21:52:56 GMT 2005
panagiotis galiotos <galiotos at usc.edu> writes:
> I'm trying to figure out which version I'm currently using. The
> sysctl return the following values:
>
> kern.osreldate: 502101
> kern.osrelease: 5.2 - CURRENT
>
> Which version is that ? Is it plain 5.2 current or 5.2.1 ?
Neither. It's 5-CURRENT between 2003/12/19 and 2004/01/30. A clean
5.2-RELEASE, or 5.2 with only security patches applied, would have an
osreldate in the range 502000 - 502099. Your system was either
upgraded manually from sources, or installed from a snapshot (if any
were made in that time span), and is probably subject to a number of
known security vulnerabilities.
DES
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