Problems with FreeBSD 6.0

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Apr 13 02:03:27 UTC 2006


On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:57:48AM +1000, Tony Maher wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 02:48:51AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > 
> >>On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:22:27PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:48:44PM +0000, gs_stoller at juno.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>	I tried out  FreeBSD 6.0  (sorry, I copied just part or
> >>>> uname -a  and I got something like "LINUX  2.4.2 FreeBSD 6.0 -
> >>>>Release #0: Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005  i686 i686 i386 GNU/LINUX")
> >>>
> >>>No you didn't, since no version of FreeBSD reports itself as LINUX
> >>>from uname.
> >>
> >>Unless uname is a Linux binary.
> > 
> > 
> > FreeBSD doesn't ship uname as a Linux binary either :-)
> > 
> > Kris
> /compat/linux/bin/uname -a
> Linux karma.internal 2.4.2 FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Apr  4 22:24:50 EST
> 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Right, and that's not the FreeBSD uname, it's the redhat (or whatever)
uname.

Kris
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