For LSB (http://www.linuxbase.org/) compliant Linux distros do: cat /etc/lsb-release
and I remember that Fedora ((or Redhat distros), currently I'm not on Fedora) when boot prints: Welcome to Fedora Linux so, check for the initial scripts that are to be executed the boot time. I'd seen that code but I don't remember. Ashish Shukla alias Wah Java !! Wah Java !! -- Ashish Shukla "Wah Java !!" आशीष शुक्ला ,= ,-_-. =. ((_/)o o(\_)) `-'(. .)`-' \_/ gMail : wahjava at gmail.com My Blog : http://wahjava.blogspot.com/ My GPG Fingerprint: BBA9 AD7D BA71 61EB BE46 8CF5 E44A C663 A03F 4261 -- Supercomputers are for people too rich and too stupid to design efficient algorithms -- Steven Skiena, Department of Computer Science, SUNY Stony Brook. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/