"OxyOss" <oxyoss@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:43B61572.50605@hotmail.com...
The problem is that that is almost certainly a conffile. It is the system logon message, and sysadmins are free to change it at will.Have you tried to use the contents of /etc/issue ? Typically for RedHat/Fedora this will have the release in it, and (for Sarge at least) this is also the case for Debian. I've done a dist-upgrade on this box and the file shows the correct version number at least... user@debian:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l