You need something that's on all *nix systems. /etc/passwd /etc/hosts or even /etc/motd
But why use cat? ssh $HOST ls -la /etc/ will do just as well. ssh $HOST ls -la /tmp is probably even less of a risk.
If you are testing ssh, any command will do. ssh $HOST ls -d /tmp is probably best. You know what the result will be, on all unix systems, and if you get "/tmp" then ssh works.
Cheers Vernon
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:
What is something that can be executed to make that universal? Is /etc/*release on all *nix systems? I know it is on rhel but that's it.
On 6/11/10, Andreas Kunberger <andreas.kunberger at itv-denkendorf.de> wrote:
Why not use simply ssh %host% cat /etc/SuSE-release
mfg
Andreas
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