Thanks to all who responded.esp Vince Merrell, Bernhard Sadlowski, Jerry
Holt, Alan Reichert and John Malick.
The answer is that the uname -v gives the "The number of the last major
kernel patch applied to the machine."
It would help if the online docs also said that in so many words.
Regards,
Nabeel
-----Original Message-----
From: Ahmed, Nabeel [mailto:Nabeel_Ahmed@bose.com]
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 11:30 AM
To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
Subject: uname -v
Hi,
uname -v gives me:
Generic_105181-17
uname -a gives me:
SunOS bashful 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
What does the uname -v output mean?
Regards,
Nabeel
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