Probably but that's how it worked on my machine
Can you quote a bit of the message you're commenting on? Not the whole thing, but some of it. I understand your response since I just wrote mine, but I doubt many others will.
Your machine probably doesn't have a true host name except "localhost.localdomain", in which case your script would sort of work.
However, as soon as it has a real node name, it'll break. "uname -r" to
return just the kernel version, followed by "cut -d . -f2" is the right
way to go. Examples:
[root@golem root]# uname -a
Linux golem.corp.publichost.com 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@golem root]# uname -a | cut -d . -f3
publichost
"publichost" is the third part of my machine's FQDN. Not what you want.
[root@golem root]# uname -r 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl [root@golem root]# uname -r | cut -d . -f2 4
Ah! "4" is the second part of "2.4.22-1.2174.nptl". That's what you want. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Cuteness can be overcome through sufficient bastardry - - --Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
