Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?

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Matt England wrote:
> So I'm left with figuring out much harder ways to tell system revs
> apart. I'm guessing I'm going to have to make an application which does
> nothing but evaluate a system and report it's variant (Redhat vs SuSE
> vs. Debian) and revision (Debian Woody/3.0, Sarge/3.1, etc).

If /etc/debian_version exists, then it's debian, and the file contents should
be the version number (which will be "testing/unstable" if the user is not
running a stable release).

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Chris Howie
http://www.chrishowie.com

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