How to tell if booted 32 bit/64 bit?

[Bill Menton]

We have an hp 9000/800 with hpux 11.00 set up for dual boot (32 bit/64 bit). I would like to include whether it's booted in 32 bit or 64 bit in the motd so that people logging in can tell right away which it is. Any suggestion?

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Your model? (k-class,V,N,L???)

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Bill:

You could build a startup script (in /sbin/rc3.d for instance) that pushes the value returned by 'getconf KERNEL_BITS' into /etc/motd.

getconf KERNEL_BITS will return "32" or "64" depending on the kernel you are running.

...JRF...