How about telnet to localhost?? Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 localhost
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is the best way to determine which distribution of Linux a machine > is running? > > I know that Debian has a file /etc/debian_version which is part of the > base-files package so that should be present on all Debian machines. > What do other dists have that is a sure way of knowing what dist is set > up on the machine? > > Thanks, > -- > Brian > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _____________________________________________________________________________
