Re: VDQ : Which Debian? (fwd)

2008-03-05 Thread Beartooth
> This works in many distros, but not all ... > >(shopt -s nullglob; cat /etc/{debian_version > ,redhat-release}*) Very interesting; It's fine in Fedora (so presumably also in CentOS, which I don't have booted right now)and in Debian; in Ubuntu it says "lenny/sid," which I guess is an

VDQ : Which Debian?

2008-03-05 Thread Beartooth Sciurivore
Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but including Debian) is running on it? If uname -a does it, I must be missing something ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User C5; D4; F8; P3; U7.10

Re: Why can't I scp inside my own router?? SOLVED, sort of ...

2008-02-22 Thread Beartooth Sciurivore
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:00:23 +0100, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:00:23 +0100, I Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: > I have a new install of 4.0 on my laptop and want to scp the > configuration for Alpine from my main machine to it. [] > The prompt is that of t

Why can't I scp inside my own router??

2008-02-21 Thread Beartooth Sciurivore
e, the ssh session is still intact. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Evangelist Remember I know little (precious little!) of what I am talking about. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]