On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:37, Russell Senior wrote: > >>>>> "Steve" == Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steve> [...] If you open a console session and type: > > Steve> uname -a > > Steve> and press enter it should tell you a lot about the > Steve> version. Please paste the output from uname -a into a reply. > > Err, none of the systems I have access to really tell you much about > the distribution based on "uname -a". > > This might work better: > > find /etc -maxdepth 1 -name \*release -or -name \*version
yeah, that works (try it on a mandrake box and tell me which answer's right). $ find /etc -maxdepth 1 -name \*release -or -name \*version /etc/mandrake-release /etc/redhat-release hmmm.... $ uname -a Linux xxxxxx.nwtechops.com 2.6.3-7mdk #1 Wed Mar 17 15:56:42 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux OK, I get it now. The kernel rev stamp is different on all of the Linux dist's that I use and I don't find myself confused with the output (SuSE pre 8 seems to be an exception - only on the non-SLES versions though). There's always more than one right way. _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
