I did something stupid (i386)

patrickaupperle · 2010-04-03 13:20:39

I was messing around in my command line, when the autocomplete feature showed me the command i386. I wanted to know what it did, so I ran it. I can't believe I did this, but I guess I expected it to display help to explain the command. Instead, it ran without output. Afterwards, I did "man i386" and it brought up the setarch man page. My question is, how do I reverse this change?

bharani · 2010-04-03 14:02:41

man setarch

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Did you run it as root?

Last edited by bharani (2010-04-03 14:04:20)

patrickaupperle · 2010-04-03 14:22:20

No, I ran it as a normal user.
I've read over the man page, it seems to suggest that it did nothing to my system. Is this true?

Edit: I just noticed something interesting, after running i386 in a terminal, running exit displays the output 'logout' instead of exiting. Then, running exit closes the terminal. What is the meaning of this? This seems to reinforce the idea that is made no change.

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pyther · 2010-04-03 16:03:54

What does uname -m report? What does it report after you reboot?

patrickaupperle · 2010-04-03 16:52:27

[patrick@arch ~]$ uname -m
i686

before reboot, rebooting now

Edit:
After reboot

[patrick@arch ~]$ uname -m
i686

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pyther · 2010-04-03 17:36:15

You should be good then. According to the man page running i386 causes uname -m to report i386.

patrickaupperle · 2010-04-03 18:29:20

That's odd. It doesn't bother me, though. Thanks for the help.

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