Re: How would a script recognize Linux?

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From: bill davidsen
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 19:19

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In article <5718@artcom0.north.de>, Peter Funk <pf@artcom0.north.de> wrote:

| One precaution must be taken:  SCO Unix has a broken uname program:
| 'uname -s' returns the node name rather than "SCO" or "Unix", so in
| order to adjust a script to recognize such a weird platform also,

Close! I think -n is the node name and -s is the system name (don't
ask why there are two...

-s  system name
-n  node name
-m  machine hardware name

This is why I suggested looking for /vmlinux first, it at least
won't give you misleading information. I really *can* believe that
someone who was using SCO because they had to would name their
machine 'linux' and break the uname method. Of course I know people
running Linux who wish they had some of the SCO features, too, so
that cuts both ways.

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Subject: Re: How would a script recognize Linux?
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