Re: Redhat Version

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Ian Timshel wrote:
> Won't going to a virtual terminal like ctl - alt - F1 list the version?  Just 
> a newbie thought.. ;^)

No, the message you see at a login prompt is the contents of the
/etc/issue file, which, in turn, is created from the content of the
/etc/redhat-release file along with info as to the kernel version and
processor type.  /etc/issue is created by code in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

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