On 06/12/2014 12:04 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:58:31AM +0100, Dan Porter wrote: >> Hi Fred, >> >> You should checkout how Virtualmin does system version >> detection. >> >> http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/oschooser.pl >> http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/os_list.txt > > Which does it the 100% wrong way. > > Again, contents of /etc/*-release _can not be trusted_. the proper way for this is: rpm -q --nosignature --qf "%{VERSION}" --whatprovides redhat-release 2>/dev/null this is working on all rhel/centos/sl etc and even on fedora. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"