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
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Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation    |       dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu

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