Thanks. In RedHat, it is /etc/redhat-release
Uk
Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
>
> UK Jaiswal proclaimed:
> > How can one find which version of what distribution a linux machine is
> > runing by having just a telnet access to the machine. Uname just gives
> > the kernel version.
>
> Depends on the distribution. Looking at the login prompt, as was suggested
> by Rajeev, is not guaranteed to work. This is because Good Sys Admins will
> disable their telnetd, ftpd, MTA etc. from printing out the distribution
> name and version number (a security measure. If you knew the version of
> ftpd that I am running it will be easy for you to find out the known
> exploits in it and use it to break in).
>
> The existence of a file /etc/debian_version will indicate that it is a
> Debian distribution. RH will have comething similar.
>
> Thaths
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