How to determine which kernel is booted?

Darrin Chandler dwchandler at stilyagin.com
Fri Aug 25 10:03:49 MST 2006


On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:53:17AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 09:42 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> > Craig White wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 09:26 -0700, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> > >> .
> > >> Is there a command one can use (or a file one can view) 
> > >> to determine what kernel is currently booted? 
> > > ----
> > > uname -r
> > > 
> > > Craig
> > 
> > Good one, Craig. I typically do uname -a, then sort it out!
> ----
> so do I but since he was specific, I thought perhaps he wanted
> specificity - i.e., to populate a report or something.

Yes, it's very handy. I have some scripts using that and other tidbits
from uname. Dealing with multiple versions and architectures is much
simpler that way.

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