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Operating Systems Linux Slackware Determine Linux Version. Post 92526 by scotbuff on Monday 12th of December 2005 10:08:46 AM
Old 12-12-2005
SuSE too

This seems to be some sort of standard, all the SuSE versions we have, have the following file also.

cat /etc/SuSE-release

Good to see the other distributions have a similar file.
 

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BLOGGER(8)						       The SuSE boot concept							BLOGGER(8)

NAME
Blogger - writes messages to a running blogd process SYNOPSIS
blogger [-n|-d|-f|-s|-u] "a message here" DESCRIPTION
blogger is used to send messages to the blogd process during boot phase. These messages will only appear in the boot logging file /var/log/boot.msg and not on /dev/console. OPTIONS
-n Declare the following message as a <notice>. This is the default. -d Use thist to add the leading string <done> to the message. -f Use thist to add the leading string <failed> to the message. -s Use thist to add the leading string <skipped> to the message. -u Use thist to add the leading string <unused> to the message. FILES
/dev/blog the named pipe (FIFO) used as message channel to the blogd process. SEE ALSO
blogd(8), console(4), tty(4), proc(5). COPYRIGHT
2001 Werner Fink, 2001 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany. AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> 3rd Berkeley Distribution Jan 26, 2001 BLOGGER(8)
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