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To check the version date of your OS (Linux distros):
uname -v
To find out the release:
uname -r
To display and show the complete kernel signature of your hosting server:
uname -a
Something like this will output similar information concerning your Linux kernel:
cat /proc/version
If you haven’t had the uname utility installed, you can get the kernel release version by:
cat /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease
You may also be interested in some other useful things to see within /proc.
wget command should be available in most hosting companies who offer SSH access to your hosting account. It is usually used to download stuff from the remote server, for example, to download something:
wget http://www.google.com/money.zip
However, there’s yet another hidden trick of wget that could enable you to make a mirror backup of any website – well, not actually any website but wget feels more comfortable with certain sites. WordPress blogs are perfect candidates for wget to mirror. Mirroring a WordPress blog can be done by a very simple switch of the wget command through SSH:
wget -mk http://www.example.com
All the documents relationships and HTML links will be taken care of so that local browsing of the mirrored copy will be completely no problem.
In the web hosting industry, Linux is undoubtedly the No. 1 server OS that has been used and talked about. With so many differently branded distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS, the basic part has always been the same – the file system, the open source packages, the commands, the shell programming and so forth. It’s a hard nut to crack, but with a few good guides and books, you will soon be on your way of becoming a professional server administration.
