Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI -------------------------------------------- On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:35:42AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> communication protocol). the initial welcome/login screen shows the > following msg: > Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) > ^^^ > Kernel 2.4.7-10 on an i686 This is generated from /etc/issue.net, which in turn is generated from /etc/redhat-release. > but the contents of "/proc/version" are: > Linux version 2.4.7-10 (<some email id>) (gcc version 2.96 20000731) (Red > Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98) #<today's date> Are you sure this is exactly the kind of output you get? /proc/version seems to contain information about the actual kernel you are running ... probably information about the machine on which it was built. In my case, it shows: Linux version 2.4.20.db08 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.1 20030626 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Wed Aug 6 20:10:23 IST 2003 The kernel version says its a 2.4.20 kernel, and "db08" is an additional tag that I attached when building it, which means its a deb, created in August using the standard Debian packaging tools. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" probably tells who built the kernel. But I am damn sure I didn't build it as root, but just as a normal user, so I don't know why it says root! You'll notice that the "Debian prerelease" is actually _inside_ the the parentheses that enclose the gcc version. I am not really sure how to interpret this, but I think it just tells which distribution the compiler is from. The "#1" probably means that this was the first kernel built from the source tree, or something like that. The date is not _today's_ date, but the build date. > does the file "/proc/version" change (or is updated) at every reboot (or > some other convinient time interval). i.e. if i change the entry in > "/proc/version" to make it RHL 7.2, will it stay like that forever (or > until someone changes it), or will it get rectified at the next reboot? > also where does the display shown at login time come from? /proc is not a real directory on your hard-disk. The files under /proc exist only inside the running kernel, and are used get information and also send control messages to stuff happening inside the kernel. Sameer. -- Research Scholar, KReSIT, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/ -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
