Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:16:31 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Cc: rivers@dignus.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname Message-ID: <199811091816.KAA10498@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199811091800.NAA24094@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Nov 9, 1998 1: 0:39 pm"
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According to Thomas David Rivers: > > > > Ah then... seems like putting a uname in /compat/linux might be > the way to go... You mentioned it was the install program, right; > does it run the uname command? In my case, the license manager was > call the uname() system function... It's uname(1) in the install script. The license manager was a whole other problem ;-) > Perhaps you can follow that route? i.e. ask them what they do with the > uname.... point out that it may not be that useful anyway... They use "uname -s" to determine if you are running i386 linux or i386 solaris. They use "uname -n" to determine the machine name for automatic registeration of their product and license management. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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