Thanks, Yarick~
I ran the command "cat /etc/redhat-release" and here is what I got:
[test1]$ cat /etc/redhat-releaseRed Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
Hope this helps,
Kevin
> > Message: 4> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:02:46 -1000> From: Kevin Chak <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]>> Subject: RE: Nessus Digest, Vol 54, Issue 17> To:
> > <[email protected]>> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Content-Type:
> > text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > > In case you want to see the result.
> > This is what I get after I that "ls" command:> > ls: /etc/*version: No such
> > file or directory-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35 Sep 5 2002 /etc/redhat-release>
> > Thanks,> > Kevin> > Message: 2> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:56:21 -1000>
> > From: Kevin Chak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Subject: Re: Checking credentials~>
> > To: <[email protected]>> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > > Thanks~I ran that
> > command and there is a 'readhat-release' in /etc. Is this distro you don't
> > support??> > Kevin> > Message: 2> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:12:34 -0400>
> > From: 'George A. Theall' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Subject: Re: Checking
> > credentials~> To: [email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes> > On
> > Apr 17, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Kevin Chak wrote:> > > Sorry, how do I know what
> > kind of Linux system I'm logging in?> > There is probably a file in /etc
> > describing the distro; it will be > named something like 'redhat-release',
> > 'debian_version', etc. So one > approach is to> ssh i> nto the host and run
> > 'ls -al /etc/*{version,release} 2>/dev/ > null'. It's possible it's either
> > a distro we don't support or someone > removed the file so we can't
> > determine what it is.> > George> -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
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