On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Stephen Day wrote: > On Friday 08 April 2005 5:11 pm, Chris Devers wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a > > Linux debian 2.4.26-smp-p4 #1 SMP Thu Apr 29 17:20:05 EDT 2004 i686 > > unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ > > uname -a does not return the distribution. The second field is the > hostname, which in your case seems to be 'debian'. Right.
My line of thinking is that `uname -a` should be able to portably identify the operating system, kernel version, and hardware architecture, and anything beyond that you can infer by just trying things and seeing what works. In general, Perl scripts should be pretty portable across at least POSIX-ish systems (any Linux version, OSX, Solaris, BSD, etc), and you shouldn't need to know any more than what you'd get from $^O. If you need some more detail, `uname -a` (among other ways) can give you most of what you need. There must be a module for this, but I can't think of the name... -- Chris Devers
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