uname output ?

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, at 11:15am, mike ledoux wrote:
> I'm curious; just how do you identify if a system is Debian or Red Hat?
> I've yet to find a reliable method.

  Red Hat has a file called /etc/redhat-release.  Debian has a file called
/etc/debian_release (or something close to that; I don't have a Debian
system to check).  Other distros do similar things.  Of course, this leads
to an identification algorithm which consists of a giant, messy switch/case
structure.  Ugly, but often better than nothing.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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