Am 12.10.2010 19:13, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
In our previous episode, David W Noon said:
ArchLinux does not use a System V init system, but a simpler BSD one.
And thus it does not use /etc/init.d, but only /etc/rc.d.
So does the BSD init use run levels?
Yes.
One of the major
On 11 October 2010 20:51, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote:
It's sad to see that there is no specific way to get this information on all
distro's but at least I can get it on the most used distros out there.
A general problem under Linux (and it's hundreds of distros). That is
why I think it is so
On 11 October 2010 19:51, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks all for the answers.
It's sad to see that there is no specific way to get this information on all
distro's but at least I can get it on the most used distros out there.
Just curious, why would you like to detect this?
Henry
On 12 October 2010 09:30, Henry Vermaak wrote:
Just curious, why would you like to detect this?
I don't know about the original poster, but I for one use such
information for our custom security components - generating trial
unlock keys for our commercial software.
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- Graeme -
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:30, Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.comwrote:
On 11 October 2010 19:51, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks all for the answers.
It's sad to see that there is no specific way to get this information on
all
distro's but at least I can get it on the most used
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:54:35 +0200, ik wrote about Re: [fpc-pascal]
Detecting what is the linux distro:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:30, Henry Vermaak
henry.verm...@gmail.comwrote:
[snip]
Just curious, why would you like to detect this?
You want to know how to install files for daemons
Am 12.10.2010 14:01, schrieb David W Noon:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:54:35 +0200, ik wrote about Re: [fpc-pascal]
Detecting what is the linux distro:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:30, Henry Vermaak
henry.verm...@gmail.comwrote:
[snip]
Just curious, why would you like to detect this?
You want
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:29:42 +0200, Sven Barth wrote about Re:
[fpc-pascal] Detecting what is the linux distro:
Am 12.10.2010 14:01, schrieb David W Noon:
[snip]
This is a consequence of using an init process based on the System V
model.
ArchLinux does not use a System V init system
not that
simple.
Ido
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 14:01, David W Noon david.w.n...@ntlworld.comwrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:54:35 +0200, ik wrote about Re: [fpc-pascal]
Detecting what is the linux distro:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09
On 12 October 2010 17:06, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote:
It's not just that. Lets say you have a UI for IPTables. In Redhat based, it
will be located under /etc/sysconfig/iptables . On debian based, it should
be under /etc/networking/post-config or something like that (don't have a
debian based
In our previous episode, David W Noon said:
ArchLinux does not use a System V init system, but a simpler BSD one.
And thus it does not use /etc/init.d, but only /etc/rc.d.
So does the BSD init use run levels?
Yes.
One of the major distinctions
between /etc/init.d/ and /etc/rc.d is
On 2010-10-11 13:33, ik wrote:
Hello List,
I'm looking for a proper way to detect the type of Linux distro.
At first I thought about /etc/issue, but it seems that some are
abusing this file.
Many distro's uses /etc/__release, where is their name, but
it's not a proper way either to
On 11 October 2010 13:33, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote:
At first I thought about /etc/issue, but it seems that some are abusing this
file.
Many distro's uses /etc/__release, where is their name, but it's
not a proper way either to detect, because not everyone uses it.
Any additional
2010/10/11 ik ido...@gmail.com
Hello List,
I'm looking for a proper way to detect the type of Linux distro.
At first I thought about /etc/issue, but it seems that some are abusing
this file.
Many distro's uses /etc/__release, where is their name, but it's
not a proper way either
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
file.
Many distro's uses /etc/__release, where is their name, but it's
not a proper way either to detect, because not everyone uses it.
Any additional ideas ?
If your distro complies with the LSB standards (most popular
Marco van de Voort wrote:
If your distro complies with the LSB standards (most popular distros
do), then you should have a /etc/lsb-release text file that you can
parse.
FC11, no such file, but there is a dir lsb-release.d with the contents
You're not really supposed to be looking at
Thanks all for the answers.
It's sad to see that there is no specific way to get this information on all
distro's but at least I can get it on the most used distros out there.
Ido
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