On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:44:04PM -0800, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I was doing some detective work using the "running Linux" > book from O'Reilly, and there was a command to check out > the error messages from the X-Window server, where you > start X bare and then kill it using control-alt-backspace: > > root]# X > /tmp/x.out 2>&1 > > When you look at x.out, there is this line in it: > > Operating System: Linux 2.2.17-8smp i686 [ELF]
This shows you the kernel that your XFree86 binary was compiled on. You can probably also get this info from /var/log/XFree86.0.log. > Now, I have an ABIT motherboard, a PII 400 MHz processor, > and that's it. I am running Seawolf Linux 7.1. > What does it mean by putting "smp" after the Linux version > numbers? Does anyone know? (I understand what the command > line above itself is doing). Where else can I go to find > out what is going on (what other command can show what > version of kernel I am running)? The "smp" stands for "Symmetric Multi-Processors", and means that the kernel XFree86 was compiled with supports multiple processors. The uname command is good for seeing what your currently running kernel version is $ uname -r 2.4.9-ac14 Or you can see the full info like this $ uname -a Linux mach1 2.4.9-ac14 #5 Mon Sep 24 17:20:48 EDT 2001 i586 unknown You can also get a good bit of info on your system by looking at /var/log/dmesg. Note that the "dmesg" command won't necessarily show you the same things. Hope this helps, Ben -- Ben Logan: blogan at newcreature dot org OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
