<quote who="Stewart">

> This may seem like a really daft question, but, how do you tell what
> distro a box is? I'm working on a server I set up a few years back but I
> can't remember whether it's mandrake or redhat, let alone work out which
> version it is. I had a quick look in /proc/sys/ but can only find kernel
> type info. any ideas?

See if the following returns anything useful...

  cat /etc/*{version,release}

- Jeff

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