[plug] which kernel running?

[Daniel]

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 23:33, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:50:08PM +0800, Daniel wrote:
> > if I have a machine that has multiple kernel versions on it - how can I
> > tell which one is currently in use?  
> 
> > (uname -a, dmesg and syslog don't seem to help).
> 
> Really? they all should have some semblence of which kernel is
> currently running in them.
> 
> Typing uname -r will give only the kernel version. uname -a will
> pad it with other random snippets of information
> 
> The first line of dmesg is generally something like:
> Linux version 2.4.18 (b at amidala) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002
> (Debian prerelease)) #1 Sun Nov 3 13:27:50 WST 2002
> 
> (unless it's scrolled off the standard dmesg buffer length, in which
> case you can pull it from /var/log/dmesg)
> 
> syslog.. well it'll be in there somewhere, as generally it contains
> much the same as dmesg. But one of the other two methods are
> preferable.
> 
> uname -r is the simplest way and will always be correct.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Bernard.

Thanks Jason and Bernard,
uname -r and 
less /proc/version
show similar "Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4" (same name ar original
install?) - and I thought I was running 2.4.19! (with my custom build ~7
...I have been experimenting).

Kernels everywhere - so I was hoping to be able to find out the full
path to the running kernel.

Thanks,
Daniel.