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Sometimes /etc/issue has what you want..

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Tony Lawrence
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Even when the man page tells you that uname -v gives you the version, it can be an

entirely different interpretatioon of version than what you would think.

For example, on this 2.4 kernel Red Hat box, uname -r says 2.4.9-21. Thatt's good.

But uname -v gives "#1" and todays date (yes, I did build a new kernel today)

On the SCO system I'm trying to recover for a client to my left, uname -r says 3.2

and uname -v says "2", but uname -X says "Release=3.2v5.0.4"

On the BSD box to my right, uname -r says 4.1.1-STABLE and -v says that and more.

Can't trust it unless you already know how it works :-)

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Quote:

> Can't trust it unless you already know how it works :-)

Michael Heiming
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The SCO man page says that uname -v gives the version.  It does warn
that it will always be "2", but  it's only in recent versions that it
goes on to explain that what you really want is obtained from uname -X.

Nothing in uname on this Redhat system returns "Redhat 7.1", which is
what many would consider the release- the specific kernel version is
perhaps the next thing you'd want to know.

I still say that even with the man page, if you aren't experienced with
the OS, you aren't necessarily going to get what you want without a
fight :-)

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[SNIP]

Quote:> I still say that even with the man page, if you aren't experienced
> with the OS, you aren't necessarily going to get what you want
> without a fight :-)

Michael Heiming
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Remove the +SIGNS case mail bounces.

They are lengthy, slow, and involved, but have the merit of being
scripted (and debugged!) by many others; if your application doesn't
merit this sophistication, I suggest perusing the code to see how
config.guess or config.sub extracts the system info for your system.

http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/autoconf/config/config.guess
http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/autoconf/config/config.sub

=Brian

I may have used the wrong terminology there but I mean the spec one
always sees on machines for sale in stores like :

For pc hardware:
Athlon 1.2ghz  Celeron 800mhz  etc.

rpm -q redhat-release

maybe that will help you

fred

Perhaps Fred's submission will have been of some help.

=Brian

On an older solaris uname -a
SunOS io 5.5.1 Generic_103640-24 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5

Isn't at least the entry `sparc' and the last one about hardware?

From an older FreeBSD machine:
 $ uname -a
FreeBSD HOST 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE #0:
Wed Jan 13 11:23:30 GMT 1999    

Doesn't i386 refer to hardware?

From the Solaris `man uname'

[...]
     -i              Print the name of the  hardware  implementa-
                    tion (platform).

     -m              Print the machine hardware name (class). Use
                    of  this  option is discouraged; use uname -p
                    instead.  See NOTES section below.
[...]

Does any thing tell about the cpu or clock speed, that you know of?
I mean something you can type at the command line and get that info.

 Tony> Nothing in uname on this Redhat system returns "Redhat 7.1", which is
 Tony> what many would consider the release- the specific kernel version is
 Tony> perhaps the next thing you'd want to know.

Both Redhat and Mandrake (and maybe other Redhat-kind Linuxes) has file
/etc/redhat-release. My Mandrake gives

Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586

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AUTHOR
     MagniComp
     http://www.MagniComp.com

URL
     http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo

FILES
     /etc - Directory of config files
     /etc/sysinfo.cf - Master configuration file
     /etc/sysmodel  - Explicitly set the CPU model name

Works on nwer suns it seems, at least some I use, perhaps it's an addon tool.

For the linux folks;

SYNOPSIS
       /bin/linuxinfo

DESCRIPTION
       linuxinfo

       Displays  the system information about the system,
              including ker- nel version, number and type of pro-
              cessors
              in system,  version  of  system  library  (libc  or
              glibc).

again, an addon I think, have not seen it as a default in any dists:

do a google search for source.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

:>> Will that technique or any others you know of dig out the cpu clock
:>> speed.  I recently needed to get that remotely from an older FreeBSD
:>> installation and suddenly realized I had no clue how to get it.
:>
:> I confess but that I am a bit confused as to the applicability of
:> what I _thought_ your were requesting insofar as you wanted a
:> _software_ report. uname(1) was mentioned, and since uname does not
:> give hardware info I figured that a standardized format was your
:> primary goal.

: I just butted in here with my question but I thought uname gave some
: hardware info too.  If not then what does? I guess is what I was
: asking.  Sorry if it confused things in the thread.  Or displayed bad
: manners.

: On an older solaris uname -a
: SunOS io 5.5.1 Generic_103640-24 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5

: Isn't at least the entry `sparc' and the last one about hardware?

: From an older FreeBSD machine:
:  $ uname -a
: FreeBSD HOST 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE #0:
: Wed Jan 13 11:23:30 GMT 1999    

: Doesn't i386 refer to hardware?

: From the Solaris `man uname'

: [...]
:      -i              Print the name of the  hardware  implementa-
:                     tion (platform).

:      -m              Print the machine hardware name (class). Use
:                     of  this  option is discouraged; use uname -p
:                     instead.  See NOTES section below.
: [...]

: Does any thing tell about the cpu or clock speed, that you know of?
: I mean something you can type at the command line and get that info.

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Quote:> Isn't at least the entry `sparc' and the last one about hardware?

Quote:> Does any thing tell about the cpu or clock speed, that you know of?
> I mean something you can type at the command line and get that info.

=Brian

Quote:>Will that technique or any others you know of dig out the cpu clock
>speed.  

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