From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 6:13:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5FA37B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 06:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15uCxR-000Jen-00; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:11:33 +0300 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:11:33 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Jim Freeze Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Why does OSTYPE=freebsd4.3 for FBSD4.4R? Message-ID: <20011018161133.T3734@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Jim Freeze , FBSD-Q References: <20011018084043.B77063@freebsdportal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011018084043.B77063@freebsdportal.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. -- The Book of Bokonon / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: XFCE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 4:10PM up 3 days, 6:24, 1 user, load averages: 0.13, 0.14, 0.14 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Jim Freeze [20011018 15:41]: writing on the s= ubject 'Why does OSTYPE=3Dfreebsd4.3 for FBSD4.4R?' | Hi: |=20 | I have FBSD 4.4R installed. While looking at the environment | variables today, I noticed that OSTYPE=3Dfreebsd4.3. |=20 | Is this correct? |=20 | env | ... | MACHTYPE=3Di386--freebsd4.3 | HOSTTYPE=3Di386 | OSTYPE=3Dfreebsd4.3 While it really doesn't bother me, I'd be interested in knowing why, just like you ;-) -Wash S y s t e m s A d m i n i s t r a t o r -- ~\\_ =20 Odhiambo Washington \\\\ =20 Wananchi Online Ltd., `\\\\\ =20 1st Flr Loita Hse, Loita Street |\\\\\ =20 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. \\\\\|__.--~~\ =20 Fax: 254 2 313985-9 _--~ / =20 Fax: 254 2 313922 /~ ////// _-~~~~' =20 E-mail: wash@wananchi.com ('-//////-// =20 URL : http://www.wananchi.com //////(((-) =20 GSM: 254 72 743 223 / 254 733 744 121 /////" =20 _///" =20 +++ "Dear Mr. Seldes: I cannot remember the exact wording of the statement to which you allude; but what I meant was that ... a man who calls himself a 100% American and is proud of it, is generally 150% an idiot politically. But the designations may be good business for war veterans. Having bled for their country in 1861 and 1918, they have bled it all they could consequently. And why not?" -- George Seldes, "The Great Quotations" --nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7ztUFn7LIsuxjem8RAh5fAJ9Tl0EYSwiCVEp52rlvv1cUkzXAlwCdGkbE /DbePpEH44jqWKAGPjLBBYM= =wvsR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message