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/usr/andrew/bin/sys reports wrong on Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Oct 31 14:10:11 2001

To: bugs@mit.edu
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Oct 2001 14:08:10 -0500
Message-ID: <sjmn1278w6d.fsf@QUICHE-LORRAINE.MIT.EDU>

The 'sys' in /usr/andrew/bin reports "ix86_Linux".  Unfortunately this
is not the same as that reported by /mit/afsuser/bin/sys, which
reports the (correct) value "i386_linux24".

This makes it hard to write scripts that use `sys` on a Linux 9.0
machine.

-derek
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