topic Uname -v meaning in Operating System - HP-UX

Uname -v meaning

Alan Edwards — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:07:06 GMT

Does anyone know what the uname -v letter mean? i.e. what does A, E etc signify.

Alan

Re: Uname -v meaning

Ashwani Kashyap — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:12:33 GMT

It displays the current version level of the operating system .

THe full version is like this B.11.00 A
I also have a U version .

Re: Uname -v meaning

Chris Wilshaw — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:13:09 GMT

from man uname

iv is the operating system version identifier.

so you could have 11.00 A, which is cersion A of HP-UX 11, and so on.

Re: Uname -v meaning

Ted Ellis_2 — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:13:11 GMT

uname -a will give you the full string... I have the U version of 11.00

HP-UX host_name B.11.00 U 9000/800 696309353 unlimited-user licens

Re: Uname -v meaning

BFA6 — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:13:50 GMT

Hi,

From the man page

C The operating system version identifier

Regards,

Hilary

Re: Uname -v meaning

Chris Wilshaw — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:15:51 GMT

Further, I believe that it also ties in with the usage licence that you have.

from my systems, A seems to be a 2 user licence, U an unlimited.

Re: Uname -v meaning

Alan Edwards — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:32:35 GMT

I know what the man page says, I was looking for the actual meaning of the letters.

My memory says that A is something like the April 99 load.

Re: Uname -v meaning

Cheryl Griffin — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:37:41 GMT

It does refer to the licensing:

A = 2-user license installed on system
E = 8-user license installed on system
U = Unlimited user license installed on system

Cheryl

Re: Uname -v meaning

Anil C. Sedha — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:39:12 GMT

Alan,

It is used to identify what version of the operating system are you using.

There are sub classes within the operating system. It is used to identify them.

Regards,
Anil

Re: Uname -v meaning

Dietmar Konermann — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:57:52 GMT

uname(1) takes the letter and determines directly the licensing policy from it:

A two-user
B 16-user (unlimited for 9000/[34] models)
C 32-user
D 64-user
E 8-user
U unlimted

Regards...
Dietmar.

Re: Uname -v meaning

Alan Edwards — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:18:51 GMT

Thanks Dietmar & Cheryl; that was just what I was looking for.

Alan