On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:55:15PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: > I'm currently trying to patch Configure to tell you the Linux > distribution (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, others as folks supply the > information), and I'm unsure of how to best parse RedHat's > /etc/redhat-release file. I have the following 1 example: > > Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman) > > I'm guessing that the '6.1' is what would be most useful. Does anyone have > a variety of Red Hat systems around or enough familiarity with Red Hat to > say how stable that format is or give me other examples? For Debian, read /etc/debian_version, which contains a single word. Recent versions will contain the following: Debian Version Contents of file 1.3 bo 2.0 hamm 2.1 slink 2.2 potato Peace, * Kurt Starsinic (Kurt.Starsinic@isinet.com) --------- Technical Specialist * | `Perl is the Cliff Notes of Unix.' - Larry Wall | Institute for Scientific Information http://www.isinet.com/