Hi,

> Howdy,
> Since S.L. 3.0.x has been out for a while, I hate to mess with the 
> release file.
> But since S.L. 4.x is still in beta and such, the release file is 
> still fair game.  It currently looks like
> 
> Scientific Linux SL Release 4.0 (Beryllium)
> 
>  From what I hear, you would want it to look like
> 
> Scientific Linux SL release 4.0 (Beryllium)
> 
> And I also hear that having /etc/scientific-release be a link to 
> /etc/redhat-release would be a good idea.
> 
> Both of those are quite easy to do.  Does anyone see any downsides 
> to doing either of these?
> 
> Troy
> 
> p.s. It was said in some other e-mail, but /etc/redhat-release HAS 
> to be there.  Just way too many scripts and/or programs would break 
> if it wasn't.

Yes, I know Webmin (I'm sure among many other programs) uses this file to
determine what distribution it's running under.

Michael.