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I need some info from certain distros for an application I'm writing. I need to know whats all in the file that tells the distro and release info. It is ...
  1. 06-23-2007 #1
    dangeroushobo
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    Looking for some info please

    I need some info from certain distros for an application I'm writing.

    I need to know whats all in the file that tells the distro and release info. It is usually located under /etc and is named something like <distro>-release or <distro>-version (<distro> being the name of the distro your using).

    So if you could please tell me the name of the file and its contents (a simple cat /etc/distro-xxxx would do).

    I already have the info for the following distros:
    slackware
    arch linux
    zenwalk
    fedora
    ubuntu
    sabayon
    turbolinux

    Thank you for any help!
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    Gentoo 2007.0
    /etc/gentoo-release:
    Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
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  3. 06-27-2007 #3
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    Both CentOS and Fedora use /etc/redhat-release.

    On my CentOS 4.5 server it says: "CentOS release 4.5 (Final)"
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  4. 06-27-2007 #4
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    Thanks guys.
    I came up with an easy way to find the name of the file for most distros:
    ls /etc | grep "version\|release"
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