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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Different ways to get OS version Post 302556475 by Corona688 on Sunday 18th of September 2011 05:45:35 PM
Old 09-18-2011
Well, for starters, redhat-release only exists on redhat. it's also only a file, so might lie or be missing.

More distributions have /etc/release but it's not impossible they won't, or be incorrect.

/proc/version is more general but only a Linux thing as far as I know.

uname exists almost everywhere.
 

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serviceconf(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    serviceconf(8)

NAME
redhat-config-services - Service Configuration Utility SYNTAX
redhat-config-services DESCRIPTION
This is a graphical tool for enabling and disabling services (including xinetd services). Functionality to start, stop, and restart ser- vices is also included. OPTIONS
None FILES
/usr/bin/redhat-config-services /usr/share/serviceconf/* EXAMPLES
To run this program simply type: redhat-config-services LIMITATIONS
This utility currently execs chkconfig --add/--del <servicename> when enabling and disabling services. This means that it does not have the same default behaviour as ntsysv. SEE ALSO
chkconfig(8) ntsysv(8) BUGS
- Some services will not start or stop properly if started anywhere but the console (redhat-config-services will appear to hang in these instances). This is not a bug in redhat-config-services, but in the individual services. - Some services are incredibly hard to detect if they are running or not. Starting, stopping and restarting initscripts may give mixed results (ie. may fail if you are stopping a service that's already stopped, etc). This will be fixed; until then it's a bug. AUTHORS
Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com> Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> Wed May 16 2001 serviceconf(8)
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