how to find linux variant?

[raghavan20]

i have a hosting account and i want to know which variant and version of linux it runs? any help is appreciated.

[Freston]

As root:

nmap -O {IP-address or url}

Read man nmap for other and additional options.

[raghavan20]

thanks for your reply. unfortunately i could not run that command as it requires root privilege.

[Freston]

Ah, you don't have access to the root account? You might try

nmap -A {IP-address or url}

For less detailed results.

[daark.child]

Does "cat /etc/*release" help.

[Ogion]

You could try
cat /etc/issue

(@daark.child: I think we had that before At least in Debianoids there is no /etc/*release )

Ogion

[daark.child]

You could try
cat /etc/issue

(@daark.child: I think we had that before At least in Debianoids there is no /etc/*release )

Ogion

True. Thats only because Debian is just weird!

[Ogion]

Well...

Ogion

[Freston]

On my box it's /etc/vector-version...



...guess there is no standardization on that





Either way, I assumed the OP was referring to a remote machine, with 'hosting account' and all that. But .. ah well .. I dunno

[Ogion]

Yeah, it doesn't seem to be standardized (At least the /etc/issue seems to exist on multiple disitros, i have it in my Debians and in my Arch.)

Well, i supposed that he had ssh-access or something like that...

Ogion