Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-19 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
John Jolet wrote: While we're at it, could people get a clue and stop including moronic little tags in their email like: this is required by many companies legal departments. Some places even add it at the mta, not the client. No, it is not required by ALL, or even

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. The “lsb_release –ir” commands seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Yoandy Rodriguez
it sounds like one of the Linux Standard Base stuff... you won't see it at gentoo in any time soon i guess On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:41 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you cat /etc/gentoo-release it give back Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16. Though being LSB compliant may not make sense for Gentoo as a whole, there is sense in having an ability to remotely identify the system as a Gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Frank.Pikelner
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you cat /etc/gentoo-release it give back Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16. Though being LSB compliant may not make sense for Gentoo as a whole, there is sense in having an ability to remotely identify the system as a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Also from a system administrators point of view it is helpful to know the operating system running on a particular server if you are responsible for managing a diverse environment with thousands of systems. I'd check for the existence of emerge and/or

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:41:32 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems | and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems | distribution name and release version. The lsb_release -ir commands | seems to provide what we are

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Scott Stoddard
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:41:32 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems | and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems | distribution name and release version. The lsb_release -ir commands | seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Phill MV
We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. Well, there isn't a standard way to any distro, come to think about it. LSB is sort of a pain and one sided, based on their

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:25:07 -0400 Scott Stoddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, | version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can | only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with | less

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 02:20 pm, Phill MV wrote: We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. Well, there isn't a standard way to any distro, come to think about it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 02:25 pm, Scott Stoddard wrote: An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with less frustration. Come on,

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Peter Gordon
Scott Stoddard said: Look I'm not at all suggesting that we dignify LSB but what the o.p. is suggesting is not at all a bad idea. An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can only help maintainers of

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Phill MV
this is required by many companies legal departments.Some places even add itat the mta, not the client. :\ that sucks. That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? Is it actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for say posting such an email verbatim on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 08:32 pm, Phill MV wrote: That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? Is it actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for say posting such an email verbatim on a website? Legally binding, maybe But enforcable, hardly. Had

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:32:03 -0400 Phill MV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | :\ that sucks. | That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? | Is it actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for | say posting such an email verbatim on a website? Well... UK

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Phill MV
Legally binding, maybeBut enforcable, hardly.Had the individual mailed youdirectly and you published it to the web, then you would have been violating the original intent of the sender, to establish a protected conversationbetween the two of you (or, from the company's perspective, to

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 12:09 am, Phill MV wrote: Well, it's just weird. What if said person is engaging in harassment? That's a separate can of worms altogether. First you'd have to prove to the court that you are actually getting harrassed. A statement like the one automagically