[Techtalk] uname -a

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:36:16PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Judy Hayes thought:
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> Question, when issuing the uname -a command where does it pull the information from?  I am currently running into a problem with my uname -a telling me my kernel version is 2.4.18smp when everything else on my system is 2.4.18-smp.  This is creating a huge problem with my module dep.  ! ! ! Help! ! 

[cdaly at Valkerie cdaly]$ uname -a
Linux Valkerie.cod.ie 2.4.7-10-amd-K6-2 #3 Thu Apr 18 23:11:22 IST 2002
i586 unknown

[cdaly at Valkerie cdaly]$ cat /proc/version 
Linux version 2.4.7-10-amd-K6-2 (root at Valkerie.cod.ie) (gcc version 2.96
20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #3 Thu Apr 18 23:11:22 IST 2002

[cdaly at Valkerie cdaly]$ strings /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10-amd-K6-2 | grep 2.4.7
2.4.7-10-amd-K6-2 (root at Valkerie.cod.ie) #3 Thu Apr 18 23:11:22 IST 2002

Same string in both kernel and /proc/version  Any differences on your
system?

One thought is to recompile your kernel.  in the top level Makefile, make
a change to the EXTRAVERSION line.  This will become part of the kernel
version.

Conor
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