Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:08:20 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: ver_linux script |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Ville Herva wrote:
>> > Perhaps "uname -a" in linux_ver script should changed to >> > "cat /proc/version"? >> >> Or maybe uname should be changed to include the compiler? >> >> Just a thought > >Sounds good unless there are some kind of unix standard issues on what >uname should return.
Standards or not, many scripts use awk/sed/perl to grab columns of output from uname. Change the order of the columns, or number of them, and you break many userland scripts.
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