uname output ?
Paul Iadonisi
pri.nhlug at iadonisi.to
Mon Aug 19 02:22:44 EDT 2002
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 02:13, John Abreau wrote:
> Paul Iadonisi <pri.nhlug at iadonisi.to> writes:
>
> > I wouldn't worry about it. I would summarily ignore the 'uname -o'
> > functionality (if it can even be called that). Someone just pointed out
> > 'lsb_release -d' to me. Using 'lsb_release -a' or 'lsb_release -as' you
> > can get all the distribution specific information you'll probably ever
> > need.
>
> I'm running Redhat 7.3, and that command doesn't exist on my machine.
> What package is it in?
The package is redhat-lsb for which there is a recent errata. It's at
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.3/en/os/i386/redhat-lsb-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm.
Don't know about other distributions yet. Only Red Hat, Suse, and
Mandrake are LSB certified so far. I'm sure there will be more to come.
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