Rock posted on Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:34:35 +0000 as excerpted: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:25:20 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote: > >> What distribution are you using?
> $ uname -a > Linux Rock 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 16 > 20:59:36 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > In other words, I'm using Centos 6. FWIW, uname -a prints info about the kernel name, version and build-time, the machine name, the OS type (Linux/GNU), the hardware platform (X86_64), but it does NOT print anything about the distro. That uname string could have come from pretty much any distro running that kernel version on x86_64. (The el6 bit in the kernel version is a slight clue as it's likely to be /reasonably/ distinct, but not much.) The /etc/issue and/or /etc/release files have traditionally been the distro brand/version files (especially on red-hat/fedora compatible distros) and what I might have expected to see cat-ed as a response to that question, but that too may differ by distro so it's not a given. (Meanwhile, I believe it /is/ pan, but I'll explain in a different post...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
