shell script commands like pdp11,hp9000s200,hp9000s300,hp9000s500,hp9000s800

[Deepak_7]

Hi,

Are there any reasons, why these architecture
scripts are there on the HP-UX machine.
uname -m would give the architecure.

They just return exit 1/0
What is the signigicance of it.

Please let me know, if anyone knows about it.

Thanks and Regards
Deepak

[Michael Tully]

Hi Deepak,

In years gone by I am sure that using the
uname -m command resulted in the system
model as well as the model command.

e.g a T500 used to be called an 891, a
T600 an 897, therefore 'uname -m' would
return 800/891 or 800/897

I suspect that this is historical only,
but I could be wrong....

-Michael

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

It is a easy way to says if your box is a hp900s200 or what..

grep "exit" hp?*
hp-mc680x0:exit 1
hp-pa:exit 0
hp9000s200:exit 1
hp9000s300:exit 1
hp9000s400:exit 1
hp9000s500:exit 1
hp9000s700:exit $?
hp9000s700_8MB:exit 1
hp9000s800:exit 0

It is used in system integration scripts.

Can you say what machine type is this?

[Wodisch · Accepted solution]

Hello Deepak,

these script might still exist for historical reasons, but as well some existing software could
use it like that way:

if hp9000s800
then echo "Do some server work"
else echo "Do some workstation work"
fi

so I would not delete them until I am 100% certain
that NO SCRIPT AT ALL does use it any more...

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch

PS: you might try something like
find / -type f -print | while read name; do
case "$(file $name)" in
*text*) grep "hp9000s[23478]00" $name /dev/null;;
esac;done

[A. Clay Stephenson]

This was the standard mechanism for determining the architecture. Uname output has varied over the years and across flavors of unix. The typical mechanism for not only to test for the output of the command but also the existence of the command.