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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:02:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@stretch.cs.virginia.edu>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what is bsdish?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.90.960404095533.14826E-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199604040943.LAA17350@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:

> 
> I had a discussion with someone recently about flavors of OSs
> and I was stating that HP-UX (Version 9.05) is SYSV flavor.
> It has ps -edf, different kernel build environment, no /etc/rc.
> He was stating HP-UX *is* BSD. Now what makes a SYSV system, what
> makes a BSD system?

	Well, the Aeleen Frish's "Essential System Administration" uses 
the presence or absence of /etc/inittab to classify machines.  It's 
pretty goot all in all.  I think another indicator of  a kernels true 
lineage is whether the group ownership of a file is inhereted from the 
containing directory without the sgid bit being set.  This use of the 
sgid bit is for BSD compatiblity.

	BTY, I believe HP-UX 9.x is SRV3 derived whereas HP-UX 10.x is 
SRV4.  HP-UX does have a bunch of BSDisms though. (Not enough for me 
thoguh. ;-)

	Adrian
        System Administrator for the NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine labs

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