HP-UX 11i June 2002 Release Notes

General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
The uname Command Outputs B.11.11
Chapter 9
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The uname Command Outputs B.11.11
new at 11i
original release
The uname command for identifying the version of HP-UX that your system is running
will return the following version name on an 11i system:
B.11.11
To guarantee compatibility on current and future platforms, you can use the new
interfaces to getconf and confstr to retrieve unique machine identifiers. For more
information, see the manpages and in Chapter 15, “Programming,” in the section
“Machine Identifier Changes to confstr” on page 271. See the getconf (1) and confstr (3C)
manpages for more information on these commands.
You can also determine what versions of software and patches are installed on your
system by using the following swlist command:
$ /usr/sbin/swlist -l bundle