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Date:      Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:30:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com>
To:        david mellick <cactushugger1@yahoo.com>, Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: noob question
Message-ID:  <475579.68438.qm@web56808.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081105022105.GA32302@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>

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--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> wrote:
> From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: noob question
> To: "david mellick" <cactushugger1@yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 9:21 PM
>
> A couple of tips for the future: address your questions to
> questions@
> rather than chat@ and preface your question with the output
> of: 
> 
> $ uname -rms

The uname -rms command only works on the HURD operating system.  It returns the current running version of Richard Stallman on stdout.  For FreeBSD users, I suggest the alternate uname -smr command, which returns their OSname, OSversion, and arch on stdout.  

- mdh



      



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