Am 12.10.2010 19:13, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
In our previous episode, David W Noon said:
ArchLinux does not use a System V init system, but a simpler BSD one.
And thus it does not use /etc/init.d, but only /etc/rc.d.
So does the BSD init use run levels?
Yes.
One of the major distinctio
In our previous episode, David W Noon said:
> > ArchLinux does not use a System V init system, but a simpler BSD one.
> > And thus it does not use /etc/init.d, but only /etc/rc.d.
>
> So does the BSD init use run levels?
Yes.
> One of the major distinctions
> between /etc/init.d/ and /etc/rc.d
On 12 October 2010 17:06, ik wrote:
> It's not just that. Lets say you have a UI for IPTables. In Redhat based, it
> will be located under /etc/sysconfig/iptables . On debian based, it should
> be under /etc/networking/post-config or something like that (don't have a
> debian based machine here),
package and get over with it", It's not that
simple.
Ido
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 14:01, David W Noon wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:54:35 +0200, ik wrote about Re: [fpc-pascal]
> Detecting what is the linux di
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:29:42 +0200, Sven Barth wrote about Re:
[fpc-pascal] Detecting what is the linux distro:
> Am 12.10.2010 14:01, schrieb David W Noon:
[snip]
> > This is a consequence of using an init process based on the System V
> > model.
>
> ArchLinux does no
Am 12.10.2010 14:01, schrieb David W Noon:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:54:35 +0200, ik wrote about Re: [fpc-pascal]
Detecting what is the linux distro:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:30, Henry Vermaak
wrote:
[snip]
Just curious, why would you like to detect this?
You want to know how to install
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:54:35 +0200, ik wrote about Re: [fpc-pascal]
Detecting what is the linux distro:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:30, Henry Vermaak
> wrote:
[snip]
> > Just curious, why would you like to detect this?
> >
>
> You want to know how to install f
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:30, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On 11 October 2010 19:51, ik wrote:
> > Thanks all for the answers.
> >
> > It's sad to see that there is no specific way to get this information on
> all
> > distro's but at least I can get it on the most used distros out there.
>
> Just curi
On 12 October 2010 09:30, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>
> Just curious, why would you like to detect this?
I don't know about the original poster, but I for one use such
information for our custom security components - generating trial
unlock keys for our commercial software.
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- Graeme -
On 11 October 2010 19:51, ik wrote:
> Thanks all for the answers.
>
> It's sad to see that there is no specific way to get this information on all
> distro's but at least I can get it on the most used distros out there.
Just curious, why would you like to detect this?
Henry
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On 11 October 2010 20:51, ik wrote:
>
> It's sad to see that there is no specific way to get this information on all
> distro's but at least I can get it on the most used distros out there.
A general problem under Linux (and it's hundreds of distros). That is
why I think it is so important to sup
Thanks all for the answers.
It's sad to see that there is no specific way to get this information on all
distro's but at least I can get it on the most used distros out there.
Ido
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Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> If your distro complies with the LSB standards (most popular distros
>> do), then you should have a /etc/lsb-release text file that you can
>> parse.
>
> FC11, no such file, but there is a dir lsb-release.d with the contents
>
You're not really supposed to be looking
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> > file.
> > Many distro's uses /etc/__release, where is their name, but it's
> > not a proper way either to detect, because not everyone uses it.
> >
> > Any additional ideas ?
>
>
> If your distro complies with the LSB standards (most p
2010/10/11 ik
> Hello List,
>
> I'm looking for a proper way to detect the type of Linux distro.
>
> At first I thought about /etc/issue, but it seems that some are abusing
> this file.
> Many distro's uses /etc/__release, where is their name, but it's
> not a proper way either to detect
On 11 October 2010 13:33, ik wrote:
>
> At first I thought about /etc/issue, but it seems that some are abusing this
> file.
> Many distro's uses /etc/__release, where is their name, but it's
> not a proper way either to detect, because not everyone uses it.
>
> Any additional ideas ?
I
On 2010-10-11 13:33, ik wrote:
Hello List,
I'm looking for a proper way to detect the type of Linux distro.
At first I thought about /etc/issue, but it seems that some are
abusing this file.
Many distro's uses /etc/__release, where is their name, but
it's not a proper way either to d
Hello List,
I'm looking for a proper way to detect the type of Linux distro.
At first I thought about /etc/issue, but it seems that some are abusing this
file.
Many distro's uses /etc/__release, where is their name, but it's
not a proper way either to detect, because not everyone uses it
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