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From: jpm@lanl.gov (Pat McGee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Shell script to determine CPU
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 17:37:34 EDT
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On Suns, and on Vaxen running Berkeley Unix, there exist
programs in /bin to tell a caller if the caller is running
on a sun or on a vax (i.e., /bin/vax returns true on vaxes,
false on suns, etc.).  I'm running on a network that has
both Suns and Unix Vaxen, as well as an Ultrix Vax, and I
would like my .login to set an environment variable with the
name of the CPU (e.g.  sun3, sun2, vax).  So far, I haven't
found any reliable way to do this on Ultrix.  I hear that
the problem also exists on all other Unix's derived from ATT
V5, but have no personal experience to back that up.

Is there a solution?

Thanks for reading this, and hopefully, thanks for replying.

Pat McGee, jpm@lanl.gov, (505) 667-4196