Re: uname: Linux ... "unknown"
Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:27:01 -0500
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 02:36:32PM -0800, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Mark Lord wrote:
>
> > "B. James Phillippe" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know why uname always returns "unknown" for the (yp)domainname?
> ...
> > Are you sure that is the domainname there?
> >
> > % uname -p
> > unknown
> >
> > The "-p" is the "host processor type".
>
> Mark (and others who have responded) are correct; the "unknown" flag is
> probably the processor type. But that only changes the question: is it
> part of the kernel that is lacking the information or is it a bug in uname?
>
btw, domainname on my machine returns nothing. where does uname(2) get the
domain name from?
-- arvind
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