On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 08:28:08PM -0400, francis picabia wrote: > Here is the exercise anyone reading can try: > > Prove to yourself exactly when you rebooted your Debian system(s)
arc3:~$ uptime 08:44:40 up 8 days, 31 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00 Everything's easy on a live, running system. > to ensure you were safe against dirty cow. Oh, *that*? In that case, you don't give a flying leap how long ago you rebooted. What you care about is the *exact running kernel version*. arc3:~$ uname -v #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1 (2016-12-30) Then you compare 3.16.39-1 against the changelog.Debian.gz to see if it's got the bug fixes you want. http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem