On Sb, 25 mai 13, 14:21:29, Vladimir Budnev wrote: > Goodday everyone! > > While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching > scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and > futher processing. > > But on my desktop it gives "unknown", so script does not work as expected. > And at the same time: > steve@dbsteve: /home/coin % > % uname -a > Linux dbsteve 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Does it mean one cant rely on uname -i results or my distro (debian > testing) behaves strange?
Depending on what you need the information for you might want to consider using 'dpkg --print-architecture' instead: amp@sid:~$ uname -i unknown amp@sid:~$ uname -m x86_64 amp@sid:~$ dpkg --print-architecture i386 amp@sid:~$ uname -a Linux sid 3.8-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.8.13-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux As you can see, I'm running the -amd64 kernel with i386 userland. If the script is trying to guess whether to launch a 32 bit or a 64 bit binary, 'uname -i' would be useless and 'uname -m' would be wrong. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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