Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:23:57 -0200 From: Trober <trober@trober.com> To: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: source of uname information Message-ID: <20090121132357.BA62C140A0@karpathos.uni5.net>
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= Hi!
kern=2Eversion is small part only of output uname command= =2E
uname command concatane KERN_OSTYPE, KERN_HOSTNAME,
KERN_OSRELEASE,&nb= sp;KERN_VERSION (not in this order) to show
output=2E
I hope I've he= lped=2E
Trober
trober@trober=2Ecom
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----- Mensagem Original -----
= De: [1]Robert Huff
Para: [2]Trober
Cc: [3]questions@freebsd=2Eorg
Data: Quarta, 21 De Janeiro De 2009 = 10:06
Assunto: Re: source of uname informa= tion
Trober :
>> Am I cor= rect in believing "uname" gets its information from
the
>> &= nbsp;kern=2Eversion sysctl?
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> I believe "YES", ba= sed on
> [1]http://www=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/cgi/cvsweb=2Ecgi/s=
rc/usr=2Ebin/uname/uname=2Ec
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> See "=3D NATIVE_SY= SCTL2_GET(ver=3D sion, CTL_KERN,
KERN_VERSION)", on
> sou= rce above=2E
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> I hope I've helped=2E
It do= es=2E
Next question:
Can someone explain this:
huff@jerusalem&= gt;> sysctl kern=2Eversion
kern=2Eversion: FreeBSD 8=2E0-CURRENT #0: = Tue Jan 20 10:40:57 EST
2009
huff@jerusalem=2Elitterat=
us=2Eorg:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JERUSALEM
huff@jerusalem>> uname -a<= BR>FreeBSD jerusalem=2Elitteratus=2Eorg
7=2E0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7=2E0-CURRENT= #0: Tue Jan 20 10:40:57 EST
2009 huff@jerusalem=2E=
litteratus=2Eorg:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JERUSALEM i386
Rober= t huff
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