Hi, On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:03:38:AM -0500 Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin quoting what Rocco Rutte said on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:31:07PM +0100: > > > > Just logged into a solaris box. Having set my prompt to 'user@machine' > > it says that only root may run 'uname'. My response: 'exit'.
> Did you by any chance have a -S in that uname call? > Because that's the only uname function that Solaris reserves for root, > and rightly so. Unless the administrator of that box did something. The 'uname' call works. You're right, it doesn't like the '-s' switch for hostname. I only have to find out, why 'uname' responds the error. Rocco
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