Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (137 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

> 
> The question remains:
> 
> On the 10th, following on a security upgrade notice, I upgraded (via
> suse-watcher) several packages, including the kernel. ... So now my
> /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd are both dated 2005-06-10.  Does this
> mean that this [security upgrade referred to in
> <http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_29_kernel.html>
> has been performed] on my system?  Is there a command which users can
> run to determine this...?

Yes.

uname -a

will show the running version.

rpm -q kernel-default (or the kernel-xxxx rpm you installed).
will show the installed version.

rpm -q --changelog kernel-default |head

will show the toplevel entry, which should be in June.

Ciao, Marcus