On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 04:45:50PM -0700, Mike Marion wrote:
Quoting Mike Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Not sure about debian or ubuntu, but at least RH, Suse and gentoo all
have /etc/*-release files with distribution/version info.  We use them
at work a lot.

Oh, forgot... /etc/issue might also be useful and is possibly more universal.

My /etc/issue has the exciting contents of:

  This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t

Others are slightly different, but the *-release seems a lot more helpful.

David


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