On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 06:17:29PM +1100, Crossfire wrote:
Only if your /etc/issue hasn't been "customized".
I personally suggest you do not rely on /etc/issue. -- Its
I personally wouldn't bet my farm on its contents either.
Just to be a knob, I've installed an /etc/redhat-release on
my
quote who="chesty"
metaphorical equivilent to using the motd to work out what colour
shirt the sysadmin is wearing today.
a web cam, an algorithm to detect shirt colour, and a bit of perl glue.
Add aalib and you'll be onto something. ;)
- Jeff
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hi slugs,
what's the command to find out what version of linux you are running.
i've got some old redhat boxes fired up and want to see what they've
got.
thanks
ben
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Ben Donohue wrote:
hi slugs,
what's the command to find out what version of linux you are running.
i've got some old redhat boxes fired up and want to see what they've
got.
Try 'cat /proc/version' - I think that should work.
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Ben Donohue was once rumoured to have said:
hi slugs,
what's the command to find out what version of linux you are running.
i've got some old redhat boxes fired up and want to see what they've
got.
To get kernel revision information, use uname -a.
If you're runnign RedHat, your redhat
hi slugs and thanks all,
yes i was looking for just the redhat version... however the wonderful thing
about this list is that now i've learnt how to find the kernel version as well,
which i'd probably be looking for soon anyway.
ben
Tom Massey wrote:
Steve Kowalik wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01,
Also,
uname -a
gives interesting info with various distros and unices.
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:31:15PM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote:
hi slugs,
what's the command to find out what version of linux you are running.
i've got some old redhat boxes fired up and want to see what they've
got.
cat /etc/issue might be a more portable way of finding out, it should
work on
chesty was once rumoured to have said:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:31:15PM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote:
what's the command to find out what version of linux you are
running. i've got some old redhat boxes fired up and want to see
what they've got.
cat /etc/issue might be a more portable way
