Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:27:01 -0500 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | Re: uname: Linux ... "unknown" |
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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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