Hi Nathan, I don't think there's a way if MySQL is on a separate machine, as I'm only aware of checking in PHP.
Hmm, maybe you could create a dummy table and see if it's case-sensitive or not? He he. Just curious, why would you need to know what OS MySQL is on? Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Jones" Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 8:02 PM Subject: Retrieving the system type that MySQL is running on. > I'm relatively new to MySQL, and I'm writing a PHP script that doesn't know > what kind of system the MySQL database is on. The script and database > don't have to be on the same system, so I need a way to determine what kind > of system (*nix, Win, etc.) MySQL is running on. Is there a "fool proof" > query to determine this? If so, what is it? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
