[WBEL-devel] An "Issue" with WBEL (pun intended)

[John Morris]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, John Hinton wrote:

> I was just trying to install Webmin on WBEL. Turns out it looks in 
> /etc/issue to discover the version of Linux and installs based on that. 
> Yup, my issue is that issue is changed to White Box and Webmin can't see 
> it. I've contacted the auther of Webmin about adding up to his list of 
> good OSs. Well, anyway... at the moment what I need is the original RHEL 
> content of the 'issue' file so I can solve my issue! ;)

Longterm they need to stop looking in /etc/issue since that is a file it 
is allowed for sites to customize.  Our main server has a neat ANSI art 
penguin.  :)  If they need to determine the distribution they should look 
for *-release and other more reliable hints.

The RHEL3 file should be pretty close to:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 3.0AS (Taroon)
Kernel \r on an \m



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