On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:35:37AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 06/12/2014 11:29 AM, Farkas Levente wrote: > > 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 > > shouldnt that be system-release ? Doesn't work on CentOS-4 best regards, Florian La Roche