Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

["Douglas J. Hunley" <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday 09 June 2001 08:41, James "Jim" Hatridge babbled:
> Hi all....
>
> I've got 3 kernels on my system, "A B C". I want to start different
> programs running according to which kernel I boot. What I whould like to
> happen is in boot.local (or where-ever) it say "if kernal A run X, if
> kernel B run Y". Is there anyway to do this?
>
> BTW I'm running SuSE 7.1......
>
> TIA!

use 'uname -v' and not 'uname -a' . it will return 2.2.19 or 2.4.5 or 
whatever. a lot easier to parse.
For example, in my rc.local:
if [ "`uname -v|cut -d\. -f2`" -gt 2 ]
	# do 2.4.x stuff
else
	# do 2.2.x stuff
fi

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Douglas J. Hunley (Linux User #174778)
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