From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 9 10:12:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01945 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01939 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:12:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.8.8) id KAA10498; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:16:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199811091816.KAA10498@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname In-Reply-To: <199811091800.NAA24094@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Nov 9, 1998 1: 0:39 pm" To: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:16:31 -0800 (PST) Cc: rivers@dignus.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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