SUMMARY: Question about uname reporting wrong name

From: Karen Thomas <kthomas_at_csunet.ctstateu.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:36:10 -0500 (EST)

Thanks to a whole bunch of people.

The response was:

This is the way uname works. It never reports the letter of the version.
You can get that from the rev number. So in my case:

        # uname -r -v
        V4.0 464

The 464 means that I am running 4.0A

I was givin another way to determine your version number that several
people pointed out:

        # strings /vmunix | grep -i "(rev"

It is also reported in the startup messages in uerf and the /etc/motd.

Thanks everyone!

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My original request:

        I recently upgraded fro 3.2D-1 to 4.0 then to 4.0A. If I do a
search through uerf startup messages, you can clearly see it is at 4.0A:

# uerf -R | grep Digital | more
                                        Digital UNIX V4.0A (Rev. 464);
                                        Digital UNIX V4.0A (Rev. 464);
                                        Digital UNIX V4.0A (Rev. 464);
                                        Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev. 386); Sat
                                        Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev. 386); Sat
                                        Digital UNIX V3.2D-1 (Rev. 41);
                                        Digital UNIX V3.2D-1 (Rev. 41);

        Also, the /etc/motd also reports being at 4.0A

        But, when I recently went to perform a patch on the system and it
told me to verify that we were at 4.0A by using uname:

        # uname -r -v
        V4.0 464

        Why would uname report only being at v4.0? Which one is correct
or did the update install from 4.0 to 4.0A not work for some reason
correctly?

Any advice into where to identify exactly what version I am running would
be graciously accepted.

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Karen Thomas

Connecticut State University System Office
Information System
THOMASK_at_CTSTATEU.EDU
PHONE: (860) 493-0118
Received on Wed Dec 11 1996 - 19:28:05 NZDT

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