How to determine Kernel version

[Bevan C. Bennett]

jdow wrote:
> From: "Richard Welty" <rwelty at averillpark.net>
> 
>>On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500 ed <ed at gurski.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I was under the impression that the orignal post was to determine which
>>>kernel was the currently running kernel.
>>
>>i still don't understand why
>>
>>$ uname -r
>>won't suffice in that case.
> 
> 
> "uname -a" shows the kernel currently running in some degree of gory
> detail.

As the earlier poster said, uname -r shows the running kernel.
uname -a shows:
1) the kernel "name" (Linux)
2) the hostname
3) the kernel release (what we want)
4) the kernel release version (compilation date for FC kernels)
5) the machine's hardware type
6) the processor type
7) the hardware platform
8) the operating system name (GNU/Linux)

If all you want is to identify the running kernel, all you need is -r.