On Mon, 05 May 2008, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Apropos. Is there a way to get that information from a vmlinuz file on > > disk? Without booting it, that is. > > Interesting enough my (somewhat older) file command does only print "x86 > boot sector", but I think some magic files supported it. Otherwise you can > use "strings vmlinux | fgrep 2." > > I usually use the file name to describe it.
debian.org kernel packages don't however. Which makes it not exactly suiteable for a nagios check for "is the running kernel the one on the fileystem". Sure, strings | grep works, but that's quite .. ugly and at least gives the impression of being fragile. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
