On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:57:24PM +0300, Matthias Andree wrote: >Tim McDaniel wrote on 2010-04-05: > >> 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. 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. > >There's the LSB, Linux Standards Base, and it supports a "lsb_release" >command, try "lsb_release -a" for a start, here a few samplers:
So, did anyone actually read my response here about how this wouldn't work for Cygwin? If so, you'd have to think that these responses were pretty off-topic. cgf -- 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
