You can always get a Unix to cough up the goods about itself with: uname -a
Shane ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Bruseker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 6, 2003 2:55 pm Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Need Help - downed server > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 06 February 2003 2:30 pm, Shawn Grover wrote: > > The server in question is running a kernal version of 2.0.34. I > think it's > > a FreeBSD distro. One thing we've noticed is the drive is at 97% > capacity.> (was 99% - trimmed /var/log/messages to the past few > days only - it had at > > least a years worth of logs). > > No such thing as a FreeBSD distro with a Linux kernel that I know > of. :-) If > it looks like FreeBSD but is really Linux then it's probably > Slackware, but > that's just a guess. Try "ls /etc/|grep release". Does it find > anything? > redhat-release or mandrake-release or anything? Also try "cat > /etc/issue". > There might be something in there to help figure out what it is. > > > Next, how do I know if the NICS started properly or not? > > /sbin/ifconfig -a > > This will list all NICs and their status. Look for the line that > looks like > this for the NIC in question: > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > That "UP" is the key part. If it's not up, it's not running. > > HTH. > > Ian > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+QtnLSiY+RXI7JS4RAgCNAJ4vGVpGU2G22kM4gC6eakhwQyFiYgCeKym7 > na2zbxuUcow+xyb97a6VARo= > =o13x > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
