building on Red Hat EL v 5

[Rick Cooper]

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 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of Rick Cooper
 > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:06 PM
 > To: 'MailScanner discussion'
 > Subject: RE: building on Red Hat EL v 5
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 >  > -----Original Message-----
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 >  > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 >  > Behalf Of Julian Field
 >  > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:09 PM
 >  > To: MailScanner discussion
 >  > Subject: Re: building on Red Hat EL v 5
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 >  > But they are needed on things other than RHEL5.
 >  > What's the best way of detecting RHEL5 and all its clones?
 >  > 
 >  > > but really need to be removed after installation of MailScanner
 >  > > because they are forced and create a maintenance headache.
 >  > >
 >  > > Craig
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 >  > 
 >  > Jules
 > 
 > You can get that information from /etc/redhat-release 
 > 
 > I don't know the format for vendors other than CentOS 
 > (whitebox etc) but I
 > am sure someone out there can provide it. Centos would be:
 > 
 > CentOS release MajorVersion.MinorRelease (final|other)
 > 
 > Redhat example:
 > 
 > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 1)
 > 
 > Perhaps RHEL and clone users could post their 
 > /etc/redhat-release contents?
 > 
 > Rick


Replying to myself, actually if /etc/redhat-release exists and you

	cat /etc/redhat-release| sed "s/.*release \(.\).*/\1/"

Should give you major release of RHEL, CentOS and any other clone that
follows the Redhat format

Rick


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