Read version and distro?

[Nancy Sollars]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Fleming" <pfleming@infomagic.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: Read version and distro?



> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Kevin Buettner wrote:
>
> > On Nov 15,  4:43pm, Patrick Fleming EA wrote:
> >
> > > [pat@gw-fw realty]$ cat /proc/version
> > > Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96
> > > 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 18:47:21 EDT 2001
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

lol i think its wrong for the distro to be listed in /proc like that its
like redhat are claiming its their kernel i think Linus himself had
something similar to say about it.

i cant see why they cant be content with the /etc/redhat-version

or maybe they should put it in the issues file

Nigel

> I'm running RedHat 7.1 on this box.
>
> >
> > This is the kernel version.  It's true that "redhat" or "Red Hat"
> > appears in the above string, but all this really tells you is that the
> > kernel in question was built on a Red Hat machine with a Red Hat
> > version of gcc.  It would (conceivably) be possible to run the kernel
> > in question on some other Linux distribution.
> >
> > Kevin
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