RE: Bug in uname

2008-12-08 Thread Walter Coole
Oops, I should have mentioned: uname --version uname (GNU coreutils) 6.10 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to

Re: Bug in uname

2008-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Walter Coole on 12/8/2008 1:28 PM: > uname -a > > uname: extra operand `-a' Thanks for the report. Are you sure you don't have any aliases or shell functions interfering? Depending on your shell, 'which uname' or 'type uname' will tell

Re: Bug in uname

2008-12-09 Thread Philip Rowlands
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RE: Bug in uname

2008-12-09 Thread Walter Coole
t the .sig; it's the burden that comes of working for a financial company. Further sorry about the false alarm. Walter -Original Message- From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 7:31 PM To: Walter Coole Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bug

Re: bug in uname on Darwin 7.8.0

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a while ago I installed the very useful coreutils on my iMac. However, > when I tried to upgrade my free software collection with fink it > refused. The reason turned out to be a bew uname from coreutils, which > did not recognize the processo