Hi, Mark van Walraven <[email protected]> wrote: >> AFAIK, the best way to know if you're running a stale kernel is to >> compare the uptime of the machine against the mtime of the actual kernel >> (using, e.g. "stat /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686"). If the uptime of the >> machine places the last reboot sometime before the kernel was updated, >> you're not up to date. If there's a better way to test this, I'd love >> to know about it. > > Comparing the outputs of: > > sed -n 's/[^(]*(Debian \([^)]*\)).*/\1/p' /proc/version > > and: > > dpkg -s $(dpkg -S $(readlink /vmlinuz) | cut -d: -f1) | > awk '/^Version: / {print $2}' > > has worked well for me - thanks to the kernel team for including the > version and revision!
Does someone know, if rkhunter has such a check? Bye, Jörg. -- Unsere Zweifel sind Verräter und oft genug verspielen wir den möglichen Gewinn, weil wir den Versuch nicht wagen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
