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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1


On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote:
* How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there
something like /etc/redhat-release or whatever ? The docs mention
/var/log/setup ... but is not clear at all)

... Otherwise, as Dave Korn suggests, you can *read the website*.

I suppose that "/etc/redhat-release" is not as well-known a concept as he or I had thought. As I understand it, it's a file that's maintained by the Redhat installation software to show, in an easy human-readable way, what is currently installed on the running system. It is only updated by new installs run on the machine. I think that some other distributions put something in /etc/motd.

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