On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:46:35PM +0200, Oleg Gritsinevich wrote:
>       I can be totally wrong, but AFAIK you can have 64-bit kernel and
> 32-bit userspace. In this case `uname -m` will return x86_64. So IMHO
> better way to determine is your system "really" 64-bit is to check
> output of:
> 
> $ file /bin/date
> 
> In 32-bit system it will return something like:
> /bin/date: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV)...
> In 64-bit something like:
> /bin/date: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV)...

'echo $MACHTYPE' might work.

Len Sorensen


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