RE: What version RHam I running?

["Ben Yau" <byau cardcommerce com>]

>
> The presense of the /etc/redhat-release file ensures a Red Hat release.
> I haven't investigated SuSE or Debian or Mandrake or GenToo or any
> others to see if they have something similar.  It's possible that the
> very first line of /var/log/dmesg may have info (it's the kernel
> version, maintainer and C compiler version used to build the kernel).

I was under the assumption that /etc/issue was a pretty standard file.  So
if original poster is asking which version as in which vendor vs. which
release, then go for /etc/issue.  At least here it works on Debian and
Redhat


Debian:
Debian GNU/\s 3.0 \n \l

Redhat:
Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
Kernel \r on an \m