SUN OS version.

Article View: comp.sys.sun

Article #6307

#6307

From: D Venkatrangan
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1991 21:03

8 lines
838 bytes

I am looking for an system call or a kernel variable that gives the the
version of the SUN OS (4.0.3/4.1).  The kernel symbol "_version" points to
a string "SunOS Release%d: no".  So it looks like the version number is
stored elsewhere...

I do not want to parse the /etc/motd file.

Please reply to	 uunet!matrix!venkat

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1044@brchh104.bnr.ca>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request
From: matrix!venkat@uunet.uu.net (D Venkatrangan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: SUN OS version.
Keywords: Miscellaneous
Message-ID: <1044@brchh104.bnr.ca>
Date: 2 Jan 91 21:03:42 GMT
Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca
Organization: Sun-Spots
Lines: 8
Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 3, message 12
X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu