From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 7:34:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd.omaha.com (unknown [207.252.120.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E16152EC for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:34:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from opsys@omaha.com) Received: from localhost (opsys@localhost) by fbsd.omaha.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id JAA02707 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:34:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from opsys@omaha.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fbsd.omaha.com: opsys owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:34:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Open Systems Inc." X-Sender: opsys@localhost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Changing the output of uname? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was wondering if it is possible to change the name output of uname to report a different OS? We bought some security software (Modified NFR) but it only supports OpenBSD. I *can* install OpenBSD but I really really really do not want to loose IPSTEALTH, Fast Forwarding, etc.. on a FreeBSD box. Since this is a security gateway. I would like it to remain invisble and FAST. Netiher of which im convinced OBSD is able to do. But the main point is the CDROM install media has a simple script that looks for BSDI, OBSD, or solaris. The only binary app it installs is a modified kernel to the target OS. I dont care about that. I just want to know if I can change the uname output to report OpenBSD rather than FreeBSD and work around the install program? This may sound like a lot of effort but I am going to try everything I can to keep FreeBSD as the OS. I realy don't want to be stuck placing an OpenBSD box at my border with a T-3 connection. I want my ipstealth and fast forwarding! :-) Thanks Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message