Re: [Sheflug] uname ?

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:27, Dawson, Alan wrote:
> Where does the information in uname come from ?
>  ie 
> 
> TEST1:/devel/hostap-driver-0.1.3# uname -a
> Linux TEST1 2.4.20-pebble #3 Fri May 2 13:14:19 EDT 2003 i686 unknown
> 
> or 
> 
> mrtg:~ # uname -a
> Linux mrtg 2.4.18-4GB #1 Wed Mar 27 13:57:05 UTC 2002 i686 unknown
> 
> How is this set?

The information comes from various files in the /proc filesystem. Try:

cat /proc/version

for example.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> AED

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