uname?

[Bill Stoye]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 00:07 +1000, Ben McGinnes wrote:
> Bill Stoye(skiffworks at earthlink.net)@Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 06:56:13AM -0700:
> > Checking to see what kernel was installed, I get this is the output for
> > uname:
> > 
> > bill at skiffworks ~ $ uname
> > Linux
> > 
> > Shouldn't I see a kernel listing?
> 
> Try "uname -a" instead, like so:
> 
> bash-2.05$ uname -a
> Linux devious 2.2.26 #3 Mon Oct 4 00:17:07 EST 2004 i586 unknown
> bash-2.05$
> 
> Though that machine is clearly not an Ubuntu one.

bill at skiffworks ~ $ uname -a
Linux skiffworks 2.6.8.1-3-686 #1 Thu Oct 7 14:27:15 BST 2004 i686
GNU/Linux

I need to learn how to read man pages; I followed one of the postings to
see how 'uname' would work.

Thank you for the help... pretty cool stuff happening here.
Bill

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ben