On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 01:26, linuxlingam wrote: > more importantly, which release of that particular linux distribution > (Redhat 8, PCQLinuxX.x, Knoppix 3.2, Debian Woody 3.0.0r, etc?) > > so what's the magic bash command or sequence of commands? > have done my googling for this and thumbed through some handy reference > books. no luck. This suggestion was suggested by Neil Youngman of linux gazette. His answer follows ' tsr2:~# cat /slackware/etc/slackware-version Slackware 9.0.0 tsr2:~# cat /libranet/etc/issue _ _ _ _ | | (_) |__ _ __ __ _ _ __ ___| |_ | | | | '_ \\| '__/ _` | '_ \\ / _ \\ __| | |___| | |_) | | | (_| | | | | __/ |_ |_____|_|_.__/|_| \\__,_|_| |_|\\___|\\__|
Libranet GNU/Linux 2.0 \m \n \l tsr2:~# cat /libranet/etc/motd Linux tsr2 2.4.18 #1 Mon Mar 18 01:28:42 UTC 2002 i686 unknown Libranet GNU/Linux tsr2:~# cat /debian/etc/debian_version 3.0 tsr2:~# cat /debian/etc/issue Debian GNU/\s 3.0 \n \l '' -- / \__ ( @\___ Raj Shekhar / O http://geocities.com/lunatech3007/ / (_____/ /_____/ U _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd