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From: brian@padouk.ima.isc.com (Brian R. Holt)
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Subject: Re: How can a script determine machine type & OS?
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Date: 14 Dec 89 15:22:02 GMT
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In article <ABAIR.89Dec13152017@turbinia.oakhill.uucp>,
abair@turbinia.oakhill.uucp (Alan Bair) writes:
> We are developing gnumake files to use on all of the machines
> we have to support, so we need a way to determine the machine
> type and OS.  For the Sun, we grep the first line of /etc/motd,

> I have noticed that when you login, there is a single line
> displayed with similar information as follows.
> 
> DomainOS Release 10.1 (bsd4.3) Apollo DN10000 serapis
> 
> It is displayed just before /etc/motd, presumably by the login
> process.  I have checked the normal Apollo startup files, and it does
> appear to come from them.

That is coming from /bin/login. I believe I put that in, back when I
worked at Apollo, from the System V /bin/login. In any case, you should
be able to get the same info from the uname command.

		=brian

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