On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:19:44PM +0530, UK Jaiswal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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
>
i think all distros support a file called /etc/redhat-release
which contains the distribution name
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Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
Linux Version 2.2.12-20, Compiled #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT 1999
One 100MHz Intel Pentium Processor, 16M RAM, 39.73 Bogomips Total
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