On top of that, it just seems logical granted the RHEL binary compatibility thing. It's used by many apps to detect the distro you're using, so... 2011/4/29 John Hinton <webmaster at ew3d.com> > On 4/29/2011 1:46 PM, Digimer wrote: > > On 04/29/2011 01:26 PM, Todd Rinaldo wrote: > >> I've always been surprised that CentOS ships /etc/redhat-release given > >> the above paragraph. > > Probably a programmatic requirement, if I was the betting type. > > > I could easily be confused as it has been so long now... I think > Whitebox actually changed that to whitebox-release and maybe CentOS did > the save very early on. But, many applications look for that file and if > they see redhat-release, know their stuff can run on your system and you > are off to the races. I suppose the final answer was it wasn't an > infringement and solved a lot of other problems. Seems I had to edit > this file or name to get something to run on a server like 4 or 5 years > ago? > > Am I required to remember everything I did from that long back? LOL > There might be some stuff in the archives though... back in the early > ver. 3 days. > > -- > John Hinton > 877-777-1407 ext 502 > http://www.ew3d.com > Comprehensive Online Solutions > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110429/b8e1e1ad/attachment-0002.html>