On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Scott Ehrlich <srehrl...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I wanted to write a script to obtain distro flavor (Ubuntu, CentOS, > RH, Mint, BSD, Solaris, etc), major/minor version (5.3, 10.6, etc), > hardware brand/make/model, at least for starters, what would be the > best way to attack it?
For systems that support the Linux Standard Base (LSB), the /etc/lsb-release file and lsb_release command are good ways to get OS information. For hardware, if you are running as root and it is installed; the dmidecode command is a good start. Good Luck, Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
