On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 07:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > what's a simple way to tell if a system has a 32 or a 64 bit CPU? Possibly: cat /proc/cpuinfo -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.