Configure scripts

[david at kramer.ne.mediaone.net (David Kramer)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> I am looking for a distribution independent method to definitively determine
> that I am running on a linux host. The way that the current scrips are
> configured is:
> test -f /boot/vmlinuz
> 
> I don't like this because Alpha linux is /vmlinux.gz
> 
> uname returns Linux.
> I test this on SuSE today, but I would surmise that uname is the best way
> to go. Any thoughts.

Red Hat reports the same thing.  IMHO, I would use uname because it is
the sole function of uname -s to tell you the name of the operating
system.  It's sort of like using the published, external API to a
library instead of calling the lower-level functions which may change in
a later version (Like StarOffice).  I would, however, do a
case-insensitive comparison ty CYA.
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