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From: Alex Satrapa <alex@lintelsys.com.au>
Subject: Re: Questions about Patch-o-Matic
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 08:30:37 +1100
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Arthur Niu wrote:
>    1. How to check kernel version?

'uname -r' will return a version number in the format '2.4.21'.

>    2. When I run ./runme base, it told me program =93'patch' is missing,
>       please install it!=94, what does the patch mean? Redhat patch or
>       iptables patch?

That means you need to install the program called 'patch'. I don't know=20
which RPM it comes in though. This is actually a piece of software which=20
applies patches to existing source code thus:

    [root@localost]# patch -p0 < myversion.diff

HTH
Alex