HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

kmpath(1M) kmpath(1M)

NAME

kmpath - retrieve kernel name and associated kernel conﬁguration information

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/kmpath

[-k]

/usr/sbin/kmpath -c

[kernel_name]

/usr/sbin/kmpath -i

[kernel_name]

DESCRIPTION

The

kmpath command is obsolete and superseded by the kcpath(1M) command. Users are encouraged to

migrate to kcpath (1M). The

kmpath command will be removed in a future release of HP-UX. The

behavior of some of kmpath’s options have changed and they are noted in the appropriate sections below.

kmpath retrieves the main kernel ﬁle name and path information of the currently running kernel.

kmpath also retrieves the conﬁguration directory of the current or speciﬁed kernel.

Each kernel conﬁguration consists of a kernel executable and a number of other ﬁles including dynami-

cally loadable kernel modules. These ﬁles are all stored in a directory which represents the kernel

conﬁguration.

If no options are speciﬁed,

kmpath

returns the full path of the executable ﬁle for the kernel that was

most recently booted. Note that the executable ﬁle may no longer be at that path, if changes have been

made since boot.

Options

The

kmpath options have the following meanings:

-k Return the base name of the executable ﬁle of the currently running kernel.

-c [kernel_name]

Return the pathname of a kernel conﬁguration directory. If kernel_name is not speciﬁed,

returns the pathname of the directory for the current kernel conﬁguration. If kernel_name is

speciﬁed, returns the pathname of the directory that contains the speciﬁed kernel.

-i [kernel_name]

This option is retired and will not return any output.