Stephen Birch wrote:
Hi I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate woody sarge etch sid hoary breezy dapper
How about to check/grep/process /etc/debian_version installed by base-files? $ cat /etc/debian_version testing/unstable Does ubuntu has a /etc/ubuntu_version ? $ apt-file search debian_version base-files: etc/debian_version This is only one idea... Carlos C Soto :: eclipxe