-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 September 2003 05:04 pm, Ian Bruseker wrote: > On September 17, 2003 4:47 pm, Peter Van den Wildenbergh wrote: > > Good-evening all : > > > > Given a ssh connection to a linux box. > > at the command line I type > > > > uname -a > > Linux saturn.cendec 2.4.18-24.7.x #1 Fri Jan 31 07:06:03 GMT 2003 i686 > > unknown > > > > But how do I find that it is a redhat/suse or mandrake ? > > (I know it is a redhat) > > but I don't know its version 7.0 / 7.3 ??? > > > cat /etc/redhat-release > > If not found, try > > cat /etc/SuSE-release > > and finally if still nothing, try > > cat /etc/mandrake-release > > I'm sure you see the trend. :-) I believe Debian also uses a debian-release ========= If some one wanted to know what it looks like for debian (mine at least) ...
oscar:~$ cat /etc/debian_version testing/unstable oscar:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.21 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.1 20030626 (Debian prerelease)) #8 Tue Jul 22 15:12:16 MDT 2003 oscar:~$ Mel Walters > file or something similar in the /etc directory. > > Ian > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/o0fO6XHX5x4iufMRAktTAJ9Rr1Tf7BRr4WGqvZbt25i5TyBo0ACfVNAA 7JtXoMoBAmOOXgkaa6HOAq8= =JnwX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
