Distribution Version & Startup

[TamedTech]

Hello Guys,

I'm using a new box that i had passed to me by a friend, and yet i have no idea what Distribution the box has on it, or what items are running at startup.

Is there an easy way from the terminal interface to tell iether of these things?

Thanks,

Rob

 

[stefanwagner]

To find out name and version (not allways showing the distribution name):

uname -a

Often you find distribution-names in /etc/issue(.net), /etc/lsb-release and /etc/motd.

To find out the runlevel:

runlevel

to find out which scripts run at startup:

ls /etc/rcX.d/

with X=number of runlevel

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[thedaver]

Additionally, most distributions leveraging the Redhat lineage (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, etc) have a utility called 'chkconfig'

try

'chkconfig -l' or perhaps it's
'chkconfig --list'

something like that. It shows all AVAILABLE commands for startup, and their setting to start at which runlevels

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[TamedTech]

Hello Guys,

Thanks for the replies they were pretty helpfull. although i couldnt get the 'runlevel' command to respone i was able to browse into my rc.d folder and find all of the scripts that were occuring on boot.

I'm very new to linux and finding myself a little lost, but its been a very productive day and i've certainly learned alot.

Next on the agenda is getting my head around the idea of flashing my Kernel and compiling binarys and installing stuff on the system, i feel tommorow may be a long day lol... give me back my windows!

Thanks,

Rob

 

[Annihilannic]

Also try looking for any /etc/*release files and see what's in there. Try /sbin/runlevel perhaps, it may not be in your PATH.

Annihilannic.