If you can log into your ISP via ssh or telnet you are probably running
some form of unix or linux. Your ISP could be running Windows but then you
wouldn't be able to log in and get a command prompt. (More accurately
called a shell prompt.)
If you can log in via telnet or ssh, you can type:
uname -a
In linux, you'll get all kinds of interesting info like operating system,
version, date compiled, node name. But it's rare thsese days for an ISP to
give subscribers shell accounts even if they are running linux. Few people
know how to use them anyway and they're a security risk.
If you don't have a shell account, you could try going to the home page for
your ISP. It often says something about the operating system the ISP is
running.
At 04:48 PM 12/11/01 -0600, you wrote:
>hi, ok here is a thought how can I see what version my isp is runing, and
>if it is unix, or linux. thanks alot.
>charles
>
>
>On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
>
> > When you compile a program for one os it will not run on another os
> > without some tweaking or a complete recompile. For example the ls
> > command for linux is a different compiled version than the ls command in
> > Solaris. Shell scripts for the most part run on any unix/linux os with
> > no problems. Even shell scripts sometimes have to be tweaked though
> > because of the different shell you may run it on.
> >
> > For example in some echo commands it will the the -n parameter and some
> > won't.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > cbowman@netdoor.com said the following on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at
> 10:36:34AM -0600:
> > >
> > > hi, I have a question. I had heard that it is posable to run some unix
> > > programs under linux I don't know if this is true, or not but, I had
> heard
> > > that there is a unix version of eudora is there a version of this for
> linux,
> > > or would the unix version work ok? has eanybody tried this? thanks alot.
> > > charles
> > >
> > > Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Test Drive
> > >
> > >
> > >
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