Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cat /etc/issue or cat /etc/issue.net I overwrite /etc/issue on all my boxes to provide pre-login text warnings to my users. I don't like advertising which flavour of *nix I'm running. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 03:10:06 +0200, Alan Shutko wrote: >> $ echo Debian GNU/Linux > > Nooo, you want echo "Microsoft Windows 2.0" :) $ echo "Microsoft wishes this was Windows Longhorn." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBQIfRUzgNqloQMwcRAhztAJ4mG5Mg6ApenbW17lxtyMRRChGHgACgmqTB 1nKVxrWd+s5t4JUwexeP98g= =G3U1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. Debian is your OS, Linux is your kernel. There's also Debian BSD and Debian HuRD. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBQIdwUzgNqloQMwcRAq81AKDL6Ing/5FHQb+8R8if7isB1ejopwCgpTxT LVjxs1wikMMPShySK8NsWF0= =K9/0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-cache search lsb alien - install non-native packages with dpkg lsb - Linux Standard Base 1.3 core support package lsb-release - LSB release command lsb-rpm - Red Hat package manager for LSB package building lsbdev-guide - LSB Application Developers' Guide [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo apt-get install lsb-release Password: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: lsb-release 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 9222B of archives. After unpacking 90.1kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main lsb-release 1.4-7.1 [9222B] Fetched 9222B in 2s (3664B/s) Selecting previously deselected package lsb-release. (Reading database ... 130318 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking lsb-release (from .../lsb-release_1.4-7.1_i386.deb) ... Setting up lsb-release (1.4-7.1) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] lsb_release -d Description:Debian GNU/Linux i found it, it is not installed by default On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:54:08 +0800, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > >>$ grep free /etc/motd #kind of sloppy > >>The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; > >> > >>Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. > >> > >> > > > >lsb_release -d > > > > > > Kookaburra:/boot# lsb_release -d > -bash: lsb_release: command not found > Kookaburra:/boot# > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- matt okeson-harlow Sen gutoj malgrandaj maro ne ekzistus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
Joey Hess wrote: $ grep free /etc/motd #kind of sloppy The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. lsb_release -d Kookaburra:/boot# lsb_release -d -bash: lsb_release: command not found Kookaburra:/boot# -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 03:10:06 +0200, Alan Shutko wrote: > $ echo Debian GNU/Linux Nooo, you want echo "Microsoft Windows 2.0" :) -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. $ echo Debian GNU/Linux -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Cynthia is mistakenly crowned King of Norway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
Dan Jacobson wrote: > Recently in webland I was asked > > What is your OS? > I wanted a single command that would say Debian GNU/Linux, > $ uname -a #no "Debian" > Linux jidanni1 2.6.7-1-k7 #1 Thu Jul 8 06:45:35 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux > $ cat /etc/debian_version #doesn't say GNU/Linux. > testing/unstable > $ grep free /etc/motd #kind of sloppy > The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; > > Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. lsb_release -d -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
Dan Jacobson wrote: Recently in webland I was asked What is your OS? I wanted a single command that would say Debian GNU/Linux, $ uname -a #no "Debian" Linux jidanni1 2.6.7-1-k7 #1 Thu Jul 8 06:45:35 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/debian_version #doesn't say GNU/Linux. testing/unstable $ grep free /etc/motd #kind of sloppy The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. cat /etc/issue or cat /etc/issue.net Also works on Slackware[all I have access to] so it seems standard. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
command to answer "what's your OS"
Recently in webland I was asked > What is your OS? I wanted a single command that would say Debian GNU/Linux, $ uname -a #no "Debian" Linux jidanni1 2.6.7-1-k7 #1 Thu Jul 8 06:45:35 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/debian_version #doesn't say GNU/Linux. testing/unstable $ grep free /etc/motd #kind of sloppy The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
