From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754088Ab1K1Skw (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:40:52 -0500 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:57580 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753956Ab1K1Sku (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:40:50 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 642 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:40:50 EST Message-ID: <4ED3D324.2040305@ahsoftware.de> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:29:56 +0100 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111115 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Piszcz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel version not updated on http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 07.11.2011 15:44, schrieb Justin Piszcz: > Hello, > > Recently I see http://www.kernel.org/ now shows 3.1 as the latest > mainline kernel version (it was 3.1-rcX) a few days ago if I recall > even though 3.1 was released last month. > However, as stated on the homepage, for those who use this in scripts > and such, the latest version is still 3.1-rc4: > > Aug 21, 2003: Please don't use finger.kernel.org for any sort of > automatic monitoring. The number of automatic bots hitting this port > is causing the finger daemon to shut down more often than not. The > same information is available from > http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner. Just a reply as reminder for the admins. ;) I've used that (currently broken) finger_banner too to check the latest version. Regards, Alexander