On 09/10/2007, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what > > distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a > > friend's Debian system, at home I've Ubuntu and Fedora, and tomorrow I > > might sit at an OpenSuse machine. I like to learn distro-ambiguous > > tools. > > > > dmesg > > Generally, near the top when the kernel boots there's some indication > of what OS this is. > > Doug.
Thanks, Doug. dmesg shows the kernel info, but not what distro (or version) is installed. I was hoping to find a way of discovering what distro is installed without rebooted the machine. I'll poke around in the boot log, it may be there. Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
