Re: Checking for kernel freshness

2012-04-13 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello all, On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 06:24:15PM +, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: [...] Fortunately there is /proc/version ... Thanks for everyone involved, I'm off writing checkscripts. FWIW, please check the attached script. HTH, Flo #!/usr/bin/perl -w # fe: ripped out from # # apt-dater -

Checking for kernel freshness

2012-04-12 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Hi, the company I work for has a script on SLES/SuSE, that checks the following three kernel versions - latest version available in the repository - version installed in /boot and thus likely to be loaded on next boot - version running and warns (and/or fixes) if there is a mismatch. I've been

Re: Checking for kernel freshness

2012-04-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernhard Schmidt wrote: The hard part seems to be matching the running kernel against the version installed. I cannot figure out a good way so far. Nothing in the running kernel seems to show the Debian version (i.e. 2.6.32-41squeeze2), thus I cannot compare it. It is printed in the bootup

Re: Checking for kernel freshness

2012-04-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-12 17:59 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: The hard part seems to be matching the running kernel against the version installed. I cannot figure out a good way so far. Nothing in the running kernel seems to show the Debian version (i.e. 2.6.32-41squeeze2), thus I cannot compare it. It

Re: Checking for kernel freshness

2012-04-12 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: The hard part seems to be matching the running kernel against the version installed. I cannot figure out a good way so far. Nothing in the running kernel seems to show the Debian version (i.e. 2.6.32-41squeeze2), thus I cannot compare it. It is printed in the

Re: Checking for kernel freshness

2012-04-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernhard Schmidt wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Try this: $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-41squeeze2) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 05:20:33 UTC 2012 God damnit. I was looking in /proc/sys/kernel and

Re: Checking for kernel freshness

2012-04-12 Thread keith
Bernhard Schmidt wrote: Hi, the company I work for has a script on SLES/SuSE, that checks the following three kernel versions - latest version available in the repository - version installed in /boot and thus likely to be loaded on next boot - version running and warns (and/or fixes) if there

Re: Checking for kernel freshness

2012-04-12 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
keith km3...@gmail.com wrote: Bernhard Schmidt wrote: The hard part seems to be matching the running kernel against the version installed. I cannot figure out a good way so far. Nothing in the running kernel seems to show the Debian version (i.e. 2.6.32-41squeeze2), thus I cannot compare it.