Re: [Hampshire] Basic kernel question

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:34:53PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 2008/10/14 Richard Danter <radanter@???>:
> > 2008/10/13 Rob Malpass <lug@???>:
> >> Forgive the ignorance - I'm a bit tired (young child teething these last few
> >> nights). Trying to work out whether I did install a 64 bit kernel on a box
> >> I've not played with in months. I've done uname -a and I get 686 as part
> >> of the returned string - but nothing with x86_64 - that means it's a 32-bit
> >> kernel right?
> >
>
> Just try the following:
>
> file /bin/ping


That will probably tell you the bit length of the ping binary (and
thus probably of the majority of userspace). It won't tell you if you
have a 64-bit kernel.

Hugo.

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