Re: Help!

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:37, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Steve" == Steve  <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> Steve> [...] If you open a console session and type:
> 
> Steve> uname -a
> 
> Steve> and press enter it should tell you a lot about the
> Steve> version. Please paste the output from uname -a into a reply.
> 
> Err, none of the systems I have access to really tell you much about
> the distribution based on "uname -a".
> 
> This might work better:
> 
>   find /etc -maxdepth 1 -name \*release -or -name \*version

yeah, that works (try it on a mandrake box and tell me which answer's
right).

$ find /etc -maxdepth 1 -name \*release -or -name \*version
/etc/mandrake-release
/etc/redhat-release

hmmm....

$ uname -a
Linux xxxxxx.nwtechops.com 2.6.3-7mdk #1 Wed Mar 17 15:56:42 CET 2004
i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

OK, I get it now.

The kernel rev stamp is different on all of the Linux dist's that I use
and I don't find myself confused with the output (SuSE pre 8 seems to be
an exception - only on the non-SLES versions though).

There's always more than one right way.