Thanks, Yarick~
I ran the command "cat /etc/redhat-release" and here is what I got:
[test1]$ cat /etc/redhat-releaseRed Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
Hope this helps,
Kevin
Message: 4> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:02:46 -1000> From: Kevin Chak
<kevinckc1628@hotmail.com>> Subject: RE: Nessus Digest, Vol 54, Issue 17>
To: <nessus@list.nessus.org>> Message-ID:
<BAY103-W14FB70D6365ABF452C4ECD6E60@phx.gbl>> Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"> > > In case you want to see the result. This is what
I get after I that "ls" command:> > ls: /etc/*version: No such file or
directory-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35 Sep 5 2002 /etc/redhat-release> Thanks,>
Kevin> > Message: 2> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:56:21 -1000> From: Kevin
Chak <kevinckc1628@hotmail.com>> Subject: Re: Checking credentials~> To:
<nessus@list.nessus.org>> Message-ID:
<BAY103-W34220A0B519C5313204460D6E70@phx.gbl>> Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"> > > Thanks~I ran that command and there is a
'readhat-release' in /etc. Is this distro you don't support??> > Kevin> >
Message: 2> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:12:34 -0400> From: 'George A. Theall'
<theall@tenablesecurity.com>> Subject: Re: Checking credentials~> To:
nessus@list.nessus.org> Message-ID:
<13E791C7-507B-4122-9CB7-55218C05D004@tenablesecurity.com>> Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes> > On Apr 17, 2008,
at 3:26 AM, Kevin Chak wrote:> > > Sorry, how do I know what kind of Linux
system I'm logging in?> > There is probably a file in /etc describing the
distro; it will be > named something like 'redhat-release',
'debian_version', etc. So one > approach is to> ssh i> nto the host and run
'ls -al /etc/*{version,release} 2>/dev/ > null'. It's possible it's either
a distro we don't support or someone > removed the file so we can't
determine what it is.> > George> -- > theall@tenablesecurity.com> >
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