[LCP]Linux release

Thu Mar 21 17:04:07 UTC 2002

On Tuesday 19 March 2002 16:39, you wrote:
| Hi Folks,
| 
| Does any one know how to detect the Linux flavor, for example Red 
Hat, SuSE

SuSe has a file called /etc/SuSE-release which looks somthing like this:
SuSE Linux 6.4 (i386)
VERSION = 6.4

Dunno about the others.

Just out of curiosity.... 
In which situation would you benefit from knowing that?
The only tool that I know of that needs to know this is webmin ...
Isn't it enough to know i.e. (g)libc and (maybe) kernel version?

Regards,
Joachim

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| 
| Karel Cardona
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| MSI-Miami
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