Uname -v incorrect

Torben Brosten torben at kappacorp.com
Sat Oct 11 13:52:31 PDT 2003


Hi  Charles,

'CUSTOM' is the name of the kernel you built. My machine is called huey, but the 
build is called DUEY.

$ uname -a
FreeBSD huey.dekka.com 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Fri Oct 10 03:02:30 PDT 
2003
root at huey.dekka.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DUEY  i386


Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently changed the hostname of one of my machines in /etc/rc.conf.
> Now my uname -v output is still showing the old name.
> I've run uname -a here so you can see the complete output, the -v stuff
> comes after the '#0:'
> Will this change with a rebuild?
> 
> [root at larry ~]# uname -a
> FreeBSD larry.howse.homeunix.net 4.8-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13
> #0: Wed Oct  8 09:38:04 CDT 2003
> root at larry.howse.no-ip.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  i386
>



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