On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:07:33PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
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> From: Mike Smith
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> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 6:05 PM
> Subject: Linux version
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> Is there a command that one can run to find out what version of Linux a server is
>running. I know there are many other ways to be able to find this information in SOME
>scenarios i.e. Telnet, if the port is open and CAT in the ETC directory for RedHat
>distributions there is a RedHat-Release flat text file that depicts the version
>information.
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/etc/issue or /etc/motd may have the info ; there is often a file somewhere
in /etc with the version info, as well, analogous to /etc/debian-version.
--
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