I m working on many Linux servers in my project. But i am unable to know which Linux Distribution i am using Like whether i am using SUSE or REDHAT or MONDRAKE. I tried with "uname" command. But it does not help me. Please provide me the command if u know.
Found this old thread while researching. I come up against this problem often in a very heterogeneous network I admin. Barring us deploying Puppet or a similar solution (someday), I need a fix. There is no canonical way to determine distro so this script is a hack around. It works (gives a best guess) on slack, suse, rh, centOS, ubuntu, solaris, and a couple of other proprietary systems we use.
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#! /bin/bash
# return an awkable string consisting of
# unix OS type, or
# Linux dist, or
# a long guess (based on /proc), or
# no clue
giveUp () {
echo "Unknown"
exit 0
}
# keep this easily awkable, prepending an initial clue
versionGuess () {
if [ -e /proc/version ]; then
echo -n "Unsure "
cat /proc/version
exit 0
fi
return 1
}
# if we have ignition, print and exit
gotDist () {
[ -n "$1" ] && echo "$1" && exit 0
}
# we are only interested in a single word "dist" here
# various malformations can occur; admin will have to code appropately based on output
linuxRelease () {
if [ -r /etc/lsb-release ]; then
dist=$(grep 'DISTRIB_ID' /etc/lsb-release | sed 's/DISTRIB_ID=//' | head -1)
gotDist "$dist"
fi
dist=$(find /etc/ -maxdepth 1 -name '*release' 2> /dev/null | sed 's/\/etc\///' | sed 's/-release//' | head -1)
gotDist "$dist"
dist=$(find /etc/ -maxdepth 1 -name '*version' 2> /dev/null | sed 's/\/etc\///' | sed 's/-version//' | head -1)
gotDist "$dist"
return 1
}
# start with uname and branch the decision from there
dist=$(uname -s 2> /dev/null)
if [ "$dist" = "Linux" ]; then
linuxRelease
versionGuess
giveUp
elif [ -n "$dist" ]; then
echo "$dist"
exit 0
else
versionGuess
giveUp
fi
# we shouldn't get here
giveUp
# done