uname -a gives unknowns

[marafa]

hi when i do a

uname -a

i get

Linux linux.net 2.4.21-0.13mdk #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

 

how do i set it up to get rid of the unknowns?

 

thanks

[fuzzylizard]

According to the man page for uname, use this:

 

uname -snrvmo

 

 

If this is too long, then simply add an alias to your .bash_profile

 

alias uname="uname -snrvmo"

 

Make sure there are no spaces around the equals sign or it won't work.

[Guest ndeb]

uname --help

shows

Usage: uname [OPTION]...

Print certain system information.  With no OPTION, same as -s.



 -a, --all                print all information, in the following order:

 -s, --kernel-name        print the kernel name

 -n, --nodename           print the network node hostname

 -r, --kernel-release     print the kernel release

 -v, --kernel-version     print the kernel version

 -m, --machine            print the machine hardware name

 -p, --processor          print the processor type

 -i, --hardware-platform  print the hardware platform

 -o, --operating-system   print the operating system

     --help     display this help and exit

     --version  output version information and exit



Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Obviously, the -a option covers all other options so the the alias with "uname -snrvmo" will not help. The reason behind the unknowns is that the -p and -i options do not have values set.

 

If u want info about the processor, run

cat /proc/cpuinfo

.

[aru]

what about this "alias"?

arusabal@mandrakeusers ~$ function uname { ( /bin/uname -snrvmo && cat /proc/cpuinfo ) | awk '/^Linux/ {o = $NF; for (i=1;i<=NF-1;i++){ snrvm = snrvm$i" "}};  /vendor_id/ {FS=":"; id = $3}; /model name/ {FS=":"; p = $2};  END {print snrvm p" "id" "o}'; }



arusabal@mandrakeusers ~$ uname

Linux mandrakeusers.foo.org 2.4.19-32mdk #1 Tue Mar 25 20:45:38 MST 2003 i586  Pentium MMX GenuineIntel GNU/Linux



arusabal@mandrakeusers ~$

 

:mrgreen:

[marafa]

hi again

 

it basically came down to this situation:

when i used easysw.com' easy package manager (the makers of cups) it created rpms for me but it was like epm-3.0.6-2.4-intel-linux.rpm (yes i have an i686 rpm of epm)

 

and when i checked uname -a i saw all those unknowns and figured epm was using uname to get the data to name the rpm.

 

and so i wanna make rpms that are fully named everytime i make an rpm instead of me renaming it