OS of a remote machine

[newbieatassembly]

Hi,
Is there any module or any way of finding out what Operating system the remote machine is running on using perl ?

Tried cpan archives - couldn't find any module for it.

Thank you.

 

[luciddream]

sometimes the os is stated inside the $ENV{"HTTP_USER_AGENT"} variable...

it might say something like
mozilla 4.0 compatible(Internat Explorer 5, Windows 98, blah blah blah)

this doesn't always work though... some os's don't give their name.

but, it's the only way i can think of.

 

[mbaranski]

On AIX, Linux, etc $ENV{shell} will give you the shell, this could help narrow it down a little, too. I don't think that there is a standard env var to determine OS, though. You could use some sort of combination of ..._user_agent and shell and some others.

 

[newbieatassembly]

Hi,
Isn't there a way of doing this in java using system.OS() or something like this.

I was looking more at this easy way of doing it but seems like perl doesn't provide such a method.

What about fingerstack printing technique to find out the running OS of a remote machine, how good is it? I would like your reviews on fingerstack printing.

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