On Mon, 9 May 2011, Peter Sjöberg wrote:
> I guess the question then is what rob means with "system". I was
> thinking system=computer system and I made the assumption that that
> if you install any distro the kernel is included so if the kernel is
> 64bit then most userland sw is probably 64bit also. But if you want
> to know whatever some specific program is 64 or 32bit "file" is the
> one to go with, and that will tell you half the story. If the
> program is 32bit it might be because the system is 32bit, not
> because you got wrong bitness installed.
>
> Robert, Do you have your answer yet?
> * to check a individual program: file /bin/ls
> * to check the running kernel: uname -m
> * to check the cpu: grep "^flags.* lm " /proc/cpuinfo
as best as i can tell, "uname -m" will tell me what i want. i've
had others confirm that, with a 32-bit install on a 64-bit system,
"uname -m" will report back a 32-bit arch, which is what i was after.
if anyone notices anything different, let me know.
rday
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