How to tell which distro I have

AllStarLink
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Hey gang, I’ve been using allstarlink since 2009. And, of course, when Jim was still with us this confusion didn’t exist but… I have a node configured to go into service on a 900 repeater in about a month. The computers I use are HP Thin Clients with 16GB SSD. It works but I just went noodling around the /usr/local/sbin directory and saw “write-node-callsigns” And when it errored I looked at the script itself and saw reference to hamvoip and it was written by Doug DSP.

So question: how do I tell if I’m using HamVoip or the real deal?
Thanks
GeorgeC W2DB

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I’m running ASL Beta, and the script I have is this one: https://github.com/AllStarLink/ASL-Asterisk/blob/develop/allstar/post_install/write-node-callsigns

There is a line that says “This file will exist if you are running any of the images from hamvoip.org”. Is that what you are talking about?

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The file mentioned is astdb.php which was originally part of Allmon and is distributed with current ASL and Hamvoip. If you need astdb.php you can grab it from https://github.com/AllStarLink/AllMon2/blob/master/astdb.php

One way to tell if you are running ASL is by checking the OS version. Hamvoip runs Arch Linux, ASL does not. Do a cat /etc/os-release and see what you get.

Current ASL is running on Debian…

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
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Yeah, that’s the line I was seeing.
GeorgeC

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6AWP to the memory rescue again. Thanks. Hate this getting older crap. I totally forgot that they used ARCH. This is definitely Debian, I know because it’s actually possible to navigate the file system. HATE ARCH. Like their package manager, though. Also, I dug further and found the source code and was able to re-compile. Somehow when I did this a year or so back I actually had de-selected app_rpt in menuselect “1.Applications” but…it worked as a repeater controller fine. But some of the functions didn’t work. Go figure. I knew something was wrong because changing the morse speed did nothing… Anyhow all’s good.

PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)”
NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“9”
VERSION=“9 (stretch)”
VERSION_CODENAME=stretch
ID=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.debian.org/”
SUPPORT_URL=“Debian -- Support”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.debian.org/”

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