If I wanted to write a script to obtain distro flavor (Ubuntu, CentOS, RH, Mint, BSD, Solaris, etc), major/minor version (5.3, 10.6, etc), hardware brand/make/model, at least for starters, what would be the best way to attack it?
This script may or may not assume being run as root. Environment is completely heterogeneous, so while I may be using an OEM system, my officemate might be using a white box system. I think the only assurance might be it be run as /bin/sh so we don't have to worry about shells. We cannot assume /etc/motd, /etc/issue, or anything else exists in its out-of-box state (they could have been replaced with other text). I thought about uname -a, but it does not indicate OS distro nor version. Arch can only assist with 32/64 bit. Thanks for leads and ideas. Scott _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
