Remotely find the kernel version

Russb · 08-01-2004, 04:09 PM

I have looked high and low and haven't found how to do this. Is there any way that you can remotely find the kernel version of linux box? For example, I have a network of servers here at home and I go out of town. I would like to get the kernel version outside the network (of course), how could I do this? I am designing my own administrative app to configure my boxes remotely and would like this information to be displayed. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Tinkster · 08-01-2004, 04:29 PM

ssh user@server "uname -r"

Cheers,
Tink

Vincent_Vega · 08-01-2004, 04:31 PM

Will you use ssh or something like that to connect to the server(s)? You can use the uname -a command to get kernel version and then some. Don't know if that will help you or not.

Russb · 08-01-2004, 04:40 PM

ssh seems to work well enough. Feel safer using that then telnet!

And thanks... uname was just what I was looking for!

Tinkster · 08-01-2004, 05:09 PM

If you want to automate that you can look into ssh's
password-less authentication... ;)

Cheers,
Tink