If you want to to it remotely, nmap does a decent job of guessing a machine's OS. I think you need to pass it the -O option. Gabe On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:36:16PM -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > Does anyone remember the name of the utility that was mentioned to tell > what OS a server is running? > > BTW, www.irs.gov is one heck of a useful website -- and good too. (I > would be really tickled to see if it were running on Linux). > > Phil M > -- > "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "If a god of love and life ever did exist, he's long since dead... Someone, some _thing_, rules in his place." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------