Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:52:11 +0100 | From | Dominik Kubla <> | Subject | Re: uname: Linux ... "unknown" |
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On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 09:41:19AM -0800, B. James Phillippe wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know why uname always returns "unknown" for the (yp)domainname? > Every Linux system that I have ever built or booted seems to provide all > the information except the domainname, regardless of whether it is or isn't > set. For example:
Because the "unknown" string has nothing todo with the NIS domain. It's the string for the processor type (uname -p) which is not supported under Linux also it would make sense (for x86: arch=i386 and cpu-type=<detected processor>, same for alpha: arch=alpha cpu-type=lca4) ...
Cheers, Dominik Kubla
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