Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but including Debian) is running on it? If uname -a does it, I must be missing something ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User C5; D4; F8; P3; U7.10; Alpine 1.0, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3 Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.