[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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and when creating a file /etc/redhat-release
with

Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 3.0AS (Taroon)

as the text, Usermin installs just fine. So, we can do a temp local hack if we need to, while the rest of the packages catch up to us. We must understand, we are just on RC2.. and already things are looking up which is very very good!

John Hinton