madhua@mars.njit.edu (madhu aiyappen ) (05/22/91)
The subject says it - what is the command to find the Version and Release of UNIX Operating System (other than finding it in /etc/motd)? Any simple commands? Thanks for any help.
hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt) (05/23/91)
In article <1991May22.163628.12135@njitgw.njit.edu>, madhua@mars.njit.edu (madhu aiyappen ) writes: > > The subject says it - what is the command to find > the Version and Release of UNIX Operating System > (other than finding it in /etc/motd)? Try "uname -a". You should get the version, release, and several other tidbits. Take a look at the man page for uname for more details (and to make sure your system has a uname command). Enjoy! -- Greg Hunt Internet: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com DG/UX Kernel Development UUCP: {world}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!hunt Data General Corporation Research Triangle Park, NC, USA These opinions are mine, not DG's.
jimr@hplsdv7.COS.HP.COM (Jim Rogers) (05/23/91)
If you have a SYSV derivative of **UX you can use the "uname" command. uname -rv This will print the current release and version number of your **UX operating system to stdout. Jim Rogers Hewlett-Packard Company
kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org (Powers) (05/23/91)
>Try "uname -a". You should get the version, release, and several >other tidbits. Take a look at the man page for uname for more >details (and to make sure your system has a uname command). Enjoy! This works on an SG but not on Ultrix or SunOS. -- ---------- Kelly-Erin Powers The MITRE Corporation Unix Systems Group Burlington Road (617) 271-2143 Bedford, MA 01730 kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org your_neighborhood!linus!mbunix!kepowers
tmurphy@convex.com (Tom Murphy) (05/23/91)
In <1991May23.154837.17537@linus.mitre.org> kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org (Powers) writes: >>Try "uname -a". You should get the version, release, and several >>other tidbits. Take a look at the man page for uname for more >>details (and to make sure your system has a uname command). Enjoy! >This works on an SG but not on Ultrix or SunOS. This works for Ultrix, and ConvexOS : Ultrix : VAX> adb -k /vmunix /dev/mem sbr 80090f18 slr 8b6a p0br 80c5ae00 p0lr 12e p1br 8045c200 p1lr 1fffea version/s _version: _version: Ultrix-32 V3.0 (Rev 66) UWS V2.0 (BL 10.0) System #2: Mon Jan 14 16:21:22 CST 1991 Convex : CONVEX> adb -k /vmunix /dev/mem sdr[0] = 00200010 sdr[1] = 00000000 sdr[2] = 00000000 sdr[3] = 00200210 sdr[4] = 00000000 sdr[5] = 00000000 sdr[6] = 00000000 sdr[7] = 00000000 Convex Debugger ($Date: 88/09/21 15:51:31 $) Use ')help' for help. (adb) version/s _version: ConvexOS -- Version 9.0.7.0.4 Tue May 14 10:25:57 CDT 1991 (adb) -- tgm ================================================================================ Tom Murphy -- tmurphy@convex.com CONVEX Technical Assistance Center COVUE/Utilities Product Specialist
cook@news.colorado.edu (Richard L. Cook) (05/24/91)
>>Try "uname -a". You should get the version, release, and several >This works on an SG but not on Ultrix or SunOS. This works fine under ULTRIX -- if your ULTRIX is up-to-date! Some of our workstations are, others aren't, which made it easy to check on this and under 4.1 (and presumably 4.0) uname works as expected. It also works on my PC and as my MKS toolkit manual notes uname comes to us from the AT&T flavor of UNIX (which makes SunOS a bit of a mystery -- I thought it was really AT&Sun but I don't have a Sun handy). The toolkit manual also points out that uname conforms to POSIX.2 as well as the X/OPEN Portability Guide so we should see it VMS Real Soon Now! The direction most UNIXen are headed in is towards a merging of the best of System V and BSD which is what the standards efforts end up formalizing. As another example, ULTRIX 4.0 was where the Korn shell (the only shell game worth playing...:-) popped up. I don't think it came with System V by default until release 4; it's the only shell that comes with the MKS toolkit although you can always continue to use COMMAND.COM on the PC if you want...;-) -- Richard cook@spot.Colorado.EDU | cook@Colorado.BITNET | +1.303.492.2148 Social Science Data Analysis Center, University of Colorado, Boulder
weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796)) (05/24/91)
In article <1991May23.154837.17537@linus.mitre.org>, kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org (Powers) writes: |> >Try "uname -a". You should get the version, release, and several |> >other tidbits. Take a look at the man page for uname for more |> >details (and to make sure your system has a uname command). Enjoy! |> |> This works on an SG but not on Ultrix or SunOS. It does work in SunOS 4.1.1 on a Sun4 (but not in SunOS 4.0.3 on a Sun3). weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )
frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (05/24/91)
I have tried uname -a and adb -k /vmunix /dev/mem on my ULTRIX which is either 4.0 or 4.1 (Something I haven't been able to verify obviously) I believe it to be 4.0 as our machine running 4.1 has the uname command. The one I am having a problem with doesn't have uname(1) or adb(anything). Anything else? ian -=Runaway Daemon=-
mckeehan@math.utk.edu (05/24/91)
>|> >Try "uname -a". You should get the version, release, and several >|> >other tidbits. Take a look at the man page for uname for more >|> >details (and to make sure your system has a uname command). Enjoy! >|> >|> This works on an SG but not on Ultrix or SunOS. > >It does work in SunOS 4.1.1 on a Sun4 (but not in SunOS 4.0.3 on a Sun3). > It also works in SunOS 4.1.1 on a Sun3 William McKeehan
larvi@ida.liu.se (Lars Viklund) (05/24/91)
In article <1991May23.154837.17537@linus.mitre.org> kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org (Powers) writes: >>Try "uname -a". You should get the version, release, and several >>other tidbits. Take a look at the man page for uname for more >>details (and to make sure your system has a uname command). Enjoy! > >This works on an SG but not on Ultrix or SunOS. > uname(1) exists in SunOS 4.1.1, but not in 4.0.3. I'm nor sure about 4.1. -- Lars Viklund | Email: lvi@ida.liu.se Programming Environments Laboratory | Phone: +46 13282689 Department of Computer and Information Science | Fax : +46 13282666 Linkoping University, S-581 83 LINKOPING, SWEDEN | Telex: 8155076 LiUIDA S
root@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Operator) (05/24/91)
In article <1991May23.154837.17537@linus.mitre.org> kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org (Powers) writes: >> >>Try "uname -a"... >> > >Kelly-Erin Powers writes: > >This works on an SG but not on Ultrix or SunOS. > ^^^^^^ Works for me (SunOS 4.1, Sun3/280 ; /bin/uname). "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15 /************************************************************** * Vance R. Fields III | Motorola SPS * * ----- * * System Administrator | Austin, TX 78735 * * | * **************************************************************/
sergio@ingres.com (Sergio L Aponte) (05/25/91)
Sun OS? Sure...
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coqui{sergio}70: uname -a
SunOS coqui 4.1.1 1 sun4c
coqui{sergio}71:
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Internet : sergio@coqui.ingres.com [`-'] Keko
UUCP : {sun,mtxinu,pyramid,pacbell}!ingres!coqui!sergio _"_"_ Jonesmouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) (05/25/91)
In article <tmurphy.675017160@convex.convex.com>, tmurphy@convex.com (Tom Murphy) writes: > This works for Ultrix, and ConvexOS : > Ultrix : > VAX> adb -k /vmunix /dev/mem > sbr 80090f18 slr 8b6a > p0br 80c5ae00 p0lr 12e p1br 8045c200 p1lr 1fffea > version/s > _version: > _version: Ultrix-32 V3.0 (Rev 66) UWS V2.0 (BL 10.0) System #2: Mon Jan 14 > 16:21:22 CST 1991 Or, if you don't happen to have read access to /dev/mem (which means the above won't work), you can adb /vmunix _version?S and while it's true that that can be inaccurate (it gives the version string from /vmunix, not from the running kernel), it is unlikely to be inaccurate on a system in multi-user mode that isn't just about to be rebooted. I would hope something similar is true of the Convex, but have no experience with them to base out-and-out statements on. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (05/26/91)
In article <1991May24.163048.4493@ida.liu.se> larvi@ida.liu.se (Lars Viklund) writes: >uname(1) exists in SunOS 4.1.1, but not in 4.0.3. I'm nor sure about 4.1. I believe it exists in 4.0.3, but it's in /5bin rather than /bin. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) (05/26/91)
In article <1991May26.030122.20964@Think.COM> barmar@think.com writes: > In article <1991May24.163048.4493@ida.liu.se> larvi@ida.liu.se (Lars Viklund) writes: > >uname(1) exists in SunOS 4.1.1, but not in 4.0.3. I'm nor sure about 4.1. > > I believe it exists in 4.0.3, but it's in /5bin rather than /bin. > -- I found this sequence of responses amusing. The question was (see Subject). And to use uname to do it you have to know the version first. My response to the original question is: there is not easy portable way to do it. -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland dik@cwi.nl
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (05/27/91)
>... and as my MKS toolkit manual notes uname comes to us >from the AT&T flavor of UNIX (which makes SunOS a bit of a mystery -- I >thought it was really AT&Sun but I don't have a Sun handy). Why does it make it a bit of a mystery? Different versions of SunOS have different bits of S5 in them; some don't have "uname", some have it in "/usr/5bin", and some have it in "/usr/bin". It may also be, in those versions of SunOS that have it, part of the "System V" optional software category, which means you don't have it unless you install that software category.
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (05/27/91)
>It does work in SunOS 4.1.1 on a Sun4 (but not in SunOS 4.0.3 on a Sun3).
It's nothing to do with Sun-3 vs. Sun-4; it's a question of pre-4.1 vs.
4.1[.x]. Systems prior to 3.2 didn't have "uname" at all; 3.2 through
4.0[.x] had it in "/usr/5bin", and 1) don't report the exact release
number and 2) don't give the version number at all; 4.1 actually gets it
from a structure generated during the kernel build, and should give the
right release number and should give the number that shows up in
"/etc/motd" in:
SunOS Release 4.0.3c (FDDI_ALM_M) #1: Wed Nov 21 14:15:21 PST 1990
^
as the version number.gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (05/27/91)
In article <1991May24.163048.4493@ida.liu.se> larvi@ida.liu.se (Lars Viklund) writes: >uname(1) exists in SunOS 4.1.1, but not in 4.0.3. I'm nor sure about 4.1. It certainly does exist on all versions of SunOS that I've ever used. You may have to install the "optional" System V software package when you configure your system, and perhaps need to include /usr/5bin in your command search path. On my SunOS 4.0.3 system that's where it is.
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (05/27/91)
In article <3592@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: >And to use uname to do it you have to know the version first. No, in fact on the half-a-zillion UNIX systems on which I have accounts, I can type "uname -a" on all of them and get the version information. That's because when I log in I set up my PATH environment variable to include ALL the potential system software directories, not just /bin.
hugh_davies.wgc1@rx.xerox.com (05/28/91)
<...>Try "uname -a". You should get the version, release, and several >other tidbits. Take a look at the man page for uname for more >details (and to make sure your system has a uname command). Enjoy! This works on an SG but not on Ultrix or SunOS....> Really? kzin{hdavies}9: uname -a SunOS kzin 4.1 2 kzin{hdavies}10: Hugh. ------------------------------------------------------ "But far numerous was the Herd of such, Who think too little, and talk too much." John Dryden (1631-1700). British poet and dramatist.
btaplin@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (bradley taplin) (05/28/91)
Some versions of ULTRIX might fail here, but on ours "uname -a" responds with "ULTRIX silver 4.1 0 VAX" so maybe it depends on the shell? I run /bin/tcsh. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ btaplin@silver.ucs.indiana.edu craves Bay Area work. Religion BA. Experience: IU Computing Services (hardware maint) since Sept 90. Knowledge: DOS, UNIX, NeXT, VMS; Emacs, tsch, WP, 123, dB3+, TeX. Learning: C++, networks, formal logic. Please e-mail suggestions. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
bc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) (05/30/91)
larvi@ida.liu.se (Lars Viklund) writes: >uname(1) exists in SunOS 4.1.1, but not in 4.0.3. I'm nor sure about 4.1. Yes it does.
davisson@IDA.ORG (Chuck Davisson) (05/31/91)
From article <1991May22.163628.12135@njitgw.njit.edu>, by madhua@mars.njit.edu (madhu aiyappen ): > > The subject says it - what is the command to find > the Version and Release of UNIX Operating System > (other than finding it in /etc/motd)? > > Any simple commands? Thanks for any help. I have it working on a Sun 3 with SunOS 4.1.1, a Sun3 with SunOS 4.1 and a Sun3 with SunOS 4.0.3. On the 4.0.3 system the -v option doesn't pick up the ".3" in 4.0.3. Also on the 4.0.3 system, uname is part of the optional System V stuff in /usr/5bin.
perl@dwrsun2.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) (06/21/91)
In article <1991May30.034145.21821@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, bc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) writes: > larvi@ida.liu.se (Lars Viklund) writes: > > >uname(1) exists in SunOS 4.1.1, but not in 4.0.3. I'm nor sure about 4.1. In pre-4.1.1 versions of SunOS it's in /usr/5bin, so you have to install the System V utilities to get it. Robert Perlberg Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., New York murphy!dwrsun2!perl -- "I am not a language ... I am a free man!"
srvarma@sodium.att.com (16AW20000[ehs]-Sandeep Varma(HO0000)T100) (06/25/91)
In article <2336@prodigal.dwrsun2.UUCP> perl@dwrsun2.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) writes: > >In pre-4.1.1 versions of SunOS it's in /usr/5bin, so you have to >install the System V utilities to get it. > How about the following options, without having to install Sys5 stuff: 1. Reading from /etc/motd. Normally, system administrators put the version info in that file. 2. Via "/etc/dmesg" command. Generally, this also gives you info about version number and a lot of other interesting stuff. 3. If 1 and 2 fail, you should be able to do a cat on "etc/install/release" to get version number of SunOS. Hope this helps. - Sandeep. -- Sandeep Varma Internet: srvarma@sodium.att.com AT&T Bell Labs UUCP: uunet!att!sodium!srvarma Lincroft, NJ 07738 Voice: (908)842-3866 (H)/(908)576-4225 (W) "Live Unix OR Die!" [My company has nothing to do with the above.]