SUMMARY: changing utsname settiings

From: <jill.ridsdale_at_yeg.co.uk>
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 08:50:00 EDT
Thanks to Mike Kiernan who is awarded 1 million points for the
following:

/usr/bin/setuname -s SunOS  [that's a new one on me, too!]

I'm stumped as to how the kernel initializes that value though.
nodename comes from /etc/nodename
version + release comes from /etc/release (I presume)
sysname comes from....??
answers on a postcard!

setuname -s worked like a charm - thanks Mike.

Original Posting:
One of my enterprise servers is giving the following output on uname :
emd1 emd1 5.6 Generic_105181-28 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise

Investigating further the sysdef shows the following values set :
*
* Utsname Tunables
*
     5.6  release (REL)
    emd1  node name (NODE)
    emd1  system name (SYS)
Generic_105181-28  version (VER)

Now I know I can change the the NODE setting by uname -S but how do I
change the SYS setting to what it should be ie SunOS.  This is causing
us some problems as we have scripts which will check these settings for
reports etc.



         Regards

       Jill Ridsdale

   Network & Systems Management
   Yorkshire Electricity
   Limewood Approach
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