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

[John Hinton]

John Morris wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, John Hinton wrote:
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>>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! ;)
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>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.
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>The RHEL3 file should be pretty close to:
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>Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 3.0AS (Taroon)
>Kernel \r on an \m
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OK, in fact when using the above in a temp issue file, Usermin still 
gives an unable to identify message... so maybe they are looking for 
redhat-release, or not for whitebox-release. Sorry, I actually didn't 
see the whitebox-release file. So, either the above is in error, or they 
are looking elsewhere. I do know Webmin is setup for whitebox, so I'm 
sure Usermin will be quick to follow. And for general info, Virtualmin 
does install just fine, but then it is is a module instead of a 
different system.

Best,
John Hinton