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SubjectRe: uname: Linux ... "unknown"
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Mark Lord wrote:

> "B. James Phillippe" wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Does anyone know why uname always returns "unknown" for the (yp)domainname?
...
> Are you sure that is the domainname there?
>
> % uname -p
> unknown
>
> The "-p" is the "host processor type".

Mark (and others who have responded) are correct; the "unknown" flag is
probably the processor type. But that only changes the question: is it
part of the kernel that is lacking the information or is it a bug in uname?

-bp
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B. James Phillippe . bryan@terran.org
Linux Engineer/Admin . http://www.terran.org/~bryan
Member since 1.1.59 . finger:bryan@earth.terran.org


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