To find out what userland version you're running, you can do `cat /etc/release`. On a daily snapshot of NetBSD 4.0 BETA2, that results in the following for example: $ cat /etc/release NetBSD 4.0_BETA2/amd64 Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Build settings: Build date Sun Aug 26 03:02:56 UTC 2007 Built by builds@wb28 BSDOBJDIR = '/usr/obj' BSDSRCDIR = '/usr/src' BUILDID = '200708250002Z' DESTDIR = '/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/amd64/200708250002Z-dest' EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN = (undefined) HAVE_GCC = '4' HAVE_GDB = '5' INSTALLWORLDDIR = (undefined) KERNARCHDIR = 'arch/amd64' KERNCONFDIR = '/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf' KERNOBJDIR = '/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/amd64/200708250002Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile' KERNSRCDIR = '/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/src/sys' MACHINE = 'amd64' MACHINE_ARCH = 'x86_64' MAKE = '/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/amd64/200708250002Z-tools/bin/nbmake' MAKECONF = '/home/builds/etc/make.conf' MAKEFLAGS = ' -d e -m /home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/src/share/mk -d e -m /home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/src/share/mk -j 1 -J 15,16 HOST_OSTYPE=NetBSD-4.0_BETA2-i386 MKOBJDIRS=yes NOPOSTINSTALL=1 USETOOLS=yes _SRC_TOP_=/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/src _SRC_TOP_OBJ_=/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/amd64/200708250002Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/src _THISDIR_=etc/' MAKEOBJDIR = (undefined) MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX = '/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/amd64/200708250002Z-obj' MAKEVERBOSE = '0' MKBFD = 'yes' MKCATPAGES = 'yes' MKCRYPTO = 'yes' MKCRYPTO_IDEA = 'no' MKCRYPTO_MDC2 = 'no' MKCRYPTO_RC5 = 'no' MKCVS = 'yes' MKDEBUG = 'no' MKDEBUGLIB = 'no' MKDOC = 'yes' MKDYNAMICROOT = 'yes' MKGCC = 'yes' MKGCCCMDS = 'yes' MKGDB = 'yes' MKHESIOD = 'yes' MKHOSTOBJ = (undefined) MKHTML = 'yes' MKIEEEFP = 'yes' MKINET6 = 'yes' MKINFO = 'yes' MKIPFILTER = 'yes' MKKERBEROS = 'yes' MKLINKLIB = 'yes' MKLINT = 'yes' MKMAN = 'yes' MKMANZ = 'no' MKNLS = 'yes' MKOBJ = 'yes' MKOBJDIRS = 'yes' MKPAM = 'yes' MKPF = 'yes' MKPIC = 'yes' MKPICINSTALL = 'yes' MKPICLIB = 'yes' MKPOSTFIX = 'yes' MKPROFILE = 'yes' MKSHARE = 'yes' MKSKEY = 'yes' MKSOFTFLOAT = 'no' MKSTATICLIB = 'yes' MKUNPRIVED = 'yes' MKUPDATE = 'yes' MKUUCP = (undefined) MKX11 = 'yes' MKYP = 'yes' NBUILDJOBS = (undefined) NETBSDSRCDIR = '/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/src' NOCLEANDIR = (undefined) NODISTRIBDIRS = (undefined) NOINCLUDES = (undefined) OBJMACHINE = (undefined) RELEASEDIR = '/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/amd64/200708250002Z-rlse' TOOLCHAIN_MISSING = 'no' TOOLDIR = '/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/amd64/200708250002Z-tools' USETOOLS = 'yes' USR_OBJMACHINE = (undefined) X11SRCDIR = '/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/xsrc' If you're running a mix and match of userland, kernel, and individual userland apps with cherry-picked CVS revisions, the [[ident]] program may be used to find the revisions of the individual source files a binary was composed of: $ ident `which which` /usr/bin/which: $ NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.4 2004/08/26 21:23:06 thorpej Exp $ $ NetBSD: whereis.c,v 1.18 2006/07/30 11:50:29 martin Exp $