RE: [Sheflug] uname ?

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 11:28, Dawson, Alan wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Seb James [mailto:seb [at] hypercubesystems.co.uk]
> 
> > > mrtg:~ # uname -a
> > > Linux mrtg 2.4.18-4GB #1 Wed Mar 27 13:57:05 UTC 2002 i686 unknown
> > > 
> > > How is this set?
> > 
> > The information comes from various files in the /proc filesystem. Try:
> > 
> > cat /proc/version
> > 
> OK ..
> 
> Whenever I compile a kernel (which isn't very often) I download source from
> kernel.org (say linux-2.4.20.tar.gz ) unpack it to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20 and
> then create a symlink from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linuc-2.4.20
> 
> after compiling and installing a shiny new kernel 
> uname -r
> 
> says 2.4.20 (in this case)
> 
> How do you get the extra tag on the end ?

When you compile the kernel, you need to edit the file "Makefile" in the
base linux source directory. At the start is something like the
following:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 4
SUBLEVEL = 20
EXTRAVERSION = 


Simply add something like -my_kernel to EXTRAVERSION, recompile and
it'll come out in uname.

Hope that helps,

Seb




> 
> Thanks
> 
> AED
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