topic Re: OS Version in Operating System - HP-UX

OS Version

ITRC forums_2 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:07:27 GMT

Hi All,

Can anybody help me to find out the name configuration file in which HP-UNIX OS Version information stores?

Re: OS Version

Torsten. — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:11:34 GMT

???

Why?

Try "uname -a" to get it.

Re: OS Version

ITRC forums_2 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:50:10 GMT

I know the command.

Is there any configuration file in OS information will store?

Re: OS Version

Torsten. — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:50:33 GMT

May I ask what you want to do?

Re: OS Version

Pete Randall — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:56:10 GMT

Configuration files are generally used to alter the behaviour of a feature and are thus modifiable. What good would it do to store version information in a modifiable file?

The only file I can think of is /stand/vmunix. I'm guessing that's what uname queries.

Pete

Re: OS Version

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:14:05 GMT

Shalom,

There is no HP-UX equivalent to /etc/redhat-release.

uname -a is the best you are going to do.

SEP

Re: OS Version

Dennis Handly — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:04:03 GMT

>Can anybody help me to find out the name configuration file in which HP-UX OS version information stored?

This is hard coded in the kernel. While you can change the name of the OS, you can't change the version.

>Pete: The only file I can think of is /stand/vmunix. I'm guessing that's what uname queries.

Yes, it makes a system call.

Re: OS Version

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:15:26 GMT

Hi:

You can probe with 'getconf', as for example:

# getconf LIBC_VERSION
1131000022

...where the first 2-digits are the major release number and the next 2-digits are the minor release number; here: "11.31".

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: OS Version

Torsten. — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:24:36 GMT

I assume you don't want to get the version, but somehow to modify something, right?

I'm sure whatever you want to do it will not work this way.

Re: OS Version

S-M-S — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:42:35 GMT

/sbin/init.d/hostname

NOTE: This script is not configurable! Any changes made to this
scipt will be overwritten when you upgrade to the next
release of HP-UX.

Re: OS Version

SoorajCleris — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:56:08 GMT

May I ask What you want to modify in that ???

:)

Regards,
Sooraj

Re: OS Version

Taifur — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:16:40 GMT

Hi,

U can check HP-UX version

#uname -ar

or take nickel , where u can find al information,

#cd /opt/contrib/bin
#./nickel

Cheers/
taifur