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Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?



The Fungi wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote:
> [...]
>> On RHEL and derived distros, there's usually a file /etc/redhat-release
>> (sometimes renamed, but usually trivially enough that it can be found
>> with little trouble) containing both the distro code name and the
>> version number.
> [...]
> 
> Not to be patronizing,

Don't worry about that.  <g>

> but you are aware of the /etc/debian_version
> file, yes?

No.  <g>  But now I am.  It's looking more promising that any other
approach, too.

-kgd



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