Read version and distro?

[Jeff]

neither of those will print the distro version though....


uname -a

At 04:23 PM 11/15/2001, you wrote:

>*or* cat /proc/version will give you more info.
>
>
>On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
>
>> Is there a command(s) or perhaps a file to read that will tell what kernel and distro verison a Linux box is running?  A string that says "RedHat X.X Linux 2.x" or something like that.  Or maybe the info comes from two different places.  Whatever.  How do I get that?
>> 
>> Alan
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