| Posted by HostSentry, 11-15-2007, 12:28 AM | | Without having all of the operating systems at my disposal for testing, I would like to figure out a way to determine the operating system of a remotely accessed Linux machine.
It seems pretty strange though, since cPanel reports both machines I am using as being
CENTOS Enterprise 4.5 i686, yet one's uname -a reports:
I'm assuming there is a way to determine the OS from this information. Anyone know how?
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| Posted by voxio, 11-15-2007, 12:31 AM | | That information is your hostname and kernel version + arch and time when the kernel was built. Your distribution version (on a centos machine) can be found by using the following command:
cat /etc/redhat-release
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| Posted by HostSentry, 11-15-2007, 12:32 AM | | What if it is not a redhat based OS?
Assuming I don't know what OS it is at all, just that its linux.
edit: Thanks for the help by the way
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| Posted by david510, 11-15-2007, 12:42 AM | | It will be like /etc/redhat-release, /etc/debian_version, /etc/cobalt-release etc. You can issue this command to get the result.
cat /etc/*-release
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| Posted by HostSentry, 11-15-2007, 12:45 AM | | Is there a list of possible files to find in the /etc directory? You list three there (which not all end in -release). Do you know any others?
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| Posted by david510, 11-15-2007, 12:46 AM | | Did you try executing the command?
cat /etc/*-release
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| Posted by HoundOfTheSmith, 11-15-2007, 03:26 AM | | Alternatively, try:
cat /etc/*release /etc/*version
(You'll get a particular volume of cruft too)
Oh, and the uname details such things as the kernel version, hostname etc. I'd expect those lines to differ between hosts and providers.
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| Posted by maestriatech, 11-15-2007, 03:48 AM | | Try this:
cat /etc/issue
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| Posted by HostSentry, 11-15-2007, 12:36 PM | | Thanks guys!
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