[ILUG-Webdev] What Linux distribution am I on?

Fri Sep 5 12:20:47 IST 2003

Hi, 

How can I quickly determine which Red Hat Linux Distribution and Version is running on our host machine via ssh?

I used the HTTP Header Viewer at 

http://www.delorie.com/web/headers.html 

and it returned 

quote:
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:27:41 GMT 
Server: Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.15 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.3 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.3 
Connection: close 
Content-Type: text/html 

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I tried

cat /etc/redhat-release
cat /etc/issue

and got messages like No such file or directory

Tried

uname -a

and it returned

Linux ourfqdn.com 2.4.20 #19 SMP Fri Aug 15 07:17:34 BST 2003 i686 unknown

Thanks