Identify system distribution

speres · 10-22-2004, 11:25 AM

I like to know how can I identify which distro I'm running (like: redhat, suse, debian, ...)

thanks

Thans for your answers, but my problem is: I have several machines at my clients which have diferent kinds of systems, and I'm trying to make a script that can identify the operating systems.

vxc69 · 10-22-2004, 11:44 AM

Type 'cat /etc/*release' on a terminal.

Example:

Code:

$ cat /etc/*release
Yoper  Linux  2.0 (for i686)

Yoper Linux is my distro. Yay!

vxc

twilli227 · 10-23-2004, 12:04 PM

Code:

knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]$ uname -a
Linux Knoppix 2.4.21-xfs #2 SMP Sat Sep 8 09:23:11 CEST 2001 i686 GNU/Linux

man uname, will give you the different flags.

vxc69 · 10-23-2004, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by twilli227

Code:

knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]$ uname -a Linux Knoppix 2.4.21-xfs #2 SMP Sat Sep 8 09:23:11 CEST 2001 i686 GNU/Linux

man uname, will give you the different flags.

Uhhh....uname will only give you the OS name (GNU/Linux) and the nodename/hostname (by default "Knoppix" on Knoppix, yos on yoper etc...).

vxc