User mananger will not open
 

Not too familar with Linux but we have a FTP server set up and we have had to use command line to add/remove or edit users for this the FTP. Was told the user manager used to work and now i select to open and nothing ever open?
Can anyone help tell me ways to fix that?
Also...where do i go to get the linux version?

We need to know what distribution you are using. In Linux land the distribution is the same as saying the brand name. Just to give you a couple of examples some popular distributions are Red Hat Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Server, SuSE Professional, SuSE Enterprise Server, Debian, Ubuntu, and lots of others.

Then we need to know what version of that distrubution you are using. This may be tricky to figure out. On my SuSE machine I can click on the GUI Start Button and click on "SuSE Help Center". When that window starts I can look in the release notes. The first line says "Release Notes for SuSE Linux 9.2" so I know that I'm using version 9.2 of SuSE Linux.

The reason that we need to know these things is that each distribution has its own set of GUI management tools for system administration. The one and only thing that they all have in common for administering user accounts is the command line utilities that you are already using. I forget what the GUI system administration tool is called in Red Hat. In SuSE it is called YaST2.

As far as the version of Linux is concerned we use the kernel version number as a version. You can enter the following command to see the kernel version.

uname -r

It will show you something like this.

$ uname -r
2.6.8-24.19-default

This has NOTHING to do with the version of your distribution. It is possible to add a new kernel to an older version of a distribution so your kernel version is not the same as your distribution version. :)

ok....i know this is old but i just never got around to doin this.

we have Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)
Kernel 2.4.26-31.9onani686

Any thoughts on this.