smp kernel bash script

[Chadley Wilson]

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:46, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 12.01.2005 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 16:19:
> > When you install Fedora 2 or 3 it detects which CPU and then loads either
> > the smp or normal kernel for you. when it loads the smp it stills give
> > the normal as an option in grub.
> > My script simply says something like this ( IIRC don't have it with me! )
> > :
> >
> > uname -a |grep smp
> > if [$? -eq 0 ] then
> > rpm -ivh kernel-smp.*.rpm
> > rpm -ivh kernel-smp.*.src
> >
> > you get the picture I hope ;)
> >
> > Today my script bites the dust as it installed a std kernel when it
> > should have installed the smp.
> > I can easily fix this. Thats not the issue.
> >
> > How can check if the cpu is an smp and add some test to my script. This
> > way even if the Fedora gets it wrong my script will fix it when applying
> > all my atches and upgrading the kernels.
>
> grep "cpu1" /proc/stat
>
> Test this. If at least cpu1 appears there, then you have an SMP system.
> This is more reliable than to check whether an SMP kernel is running.
>
> > Chadley Wilson
>
> Alexander

Thanks Alexander I will try your suggestion but in the morning, I will add it 
to my script so long.

Question though, will that not reflect results based on the current running 
kernel? (should it be a non smp kernel)


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Chadley Wilson
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