Re: Environment Variable weirdness
You want the HOSTTYPE to say i386, since your machine IS a 386-compatible
chip. :)
As for that environment variable, you could parse the output of:
$ uname -rm
2.0.36 i686
And build it yourself... :)
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:39:48PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote:
>
> (1)
> Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of
> environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2).
>
> First of all :
>
> HOSTTYPE=i386-linux
>
> I have a Celeron 300A processor and have installed a new
> 2.2.12 kernel recently. Where is this variable getting
> set from ?
>
> How do I change this env variable on a global basis ?
>
> Same thing for the MACHTYPE env variable :
>
> MACHTYPE=i386
>
> Why do these variables refer to i386 when the arch
> command displays the correct output :
>
> @phoenix:[/home/ssahmed] arch
> i686
>
>
> (2)
> The other thing is that the DISPLAY env variable is set
> to "unix:0.0". My question is : shouldn't this variable
> be of the form $HOSTNAME:0.0 ? So why is set to "unix:0.0" ?
>
> And how do I change this env variable on a global basis
> (ie for all users) ?
>
>
> (3)
> The last thing is : I'd like to create an environment variable
> that contains the following information : kernel version and
> machine architechture. e.g. : linux-2.2.12-i686. Let's call
> it OSVERSION. Where do I set this environment variable ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Salman Ahmed
> ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
>
>
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