Which distribution?

[BIS]

Hello,

Silly question probably, but is there a command that will show me which distribution of Linux I have installed (RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware) ?

 

[aixmurderer]

Difficult one to answer, you could have a look at the /usr/src directory, if you see a directory called "redhat" then you know what it is.

On my Mandrake box I did a grep for "mandrake" in the /etc/ directory, found some files referring to it.

A uname -a revealed nothing.

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[aixmurderer]

Ha, got it, this is easy if telnet is enabled on your box.

Do a "telnet localhost", the login screen should reveal your distribution and version. IBM Certified Confused - MQSeries
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[BIS]

Thanks,

Looking in the /usr/src did the trick, this was indeed a redhat dist. Any quick idea on how to find which release? I have a feeling this is 7.3 but just to be sure....

 

[BIS]

and another note: If i telnet localhost I get access denied. Can i temporarily enable telnet just to check this command, then disable it again?

As the man said:
I think, therefore I am confused.

 

[fluid11]

When you telnet to a machine, the greeting you see comes from the /etc/issue file.

[root@cp root]# cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
Kernel \r on an \m


The /proc/version file might be of interest also...

[root@cp root]# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002



If you still want to enable telnet anyway, modify the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file....

[root@cp root]# cat /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses # unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service telnet
{
disable = yes
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
}




ChrisP

 

[BIS]

excellent info - many many thanks.