On 6/04/2010 1:32 AM, Tim McDaniel wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote: >>> * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there >>> something like /etc/redhat-release or whatever ? The docs mention >>> /var/log/setup ... but is not clear at all) >> >> ... Otherwise, as Dave Korn suggests, you can *read the website*. > > I suppose that "/etc/redhat-release" is not as well-known a concept as > he or I had thought.
RedHat -- /etc/redhat-release Solaris -- /etc/release SGI (SuSE) -- /etc/sgi-release also the redhat offsprings have it: centos -- /etc/redhat-release fedora -- /etc/system-release Don't know about Debian based systems, I think they have /etc/debian_version. > As I understand it, it's a file that's > maintained by the Redhat installation software to show, in an easy > human-readable way, what is currently installed on the running system. > It is only updated by new installs run on the machine. I think that > some other distributions put something in /etc/motd. I saw it also on Solaris and SGI (SuSE variant). I thought is quite customary nowadays and I mentioned RedHat only because I thought is most recognizable. As mentioned earlier 'uname' indeed shows the current version (thanks :) ... why didn't I thought of it ?) I found it eventually also in the FAQ but maybe not in the manual (?, maybe I didn't search properly). So I guess it's back to RTFM for me ;D Regards. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
