diff --git a/wscript_configure b/wscript_configure
index a830352e265..24d85c84ad1 100644
--- a/wscript_configure
+++ b/wscript_configure
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ elif _exists("/etc/redhat-release"):
     version = file("/etc/redhat-release").readline()
     if version.find("Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6") != -1:
         conf.env.DISTRO = "RHEL"
-    elif version.find("Centos release") != -1:
+    elif version.find("CentOS release") != -1:
         conf.env.DISTRO = "CentOS"
 else: conf.env.DISTRO = "unknown"
 if conf.env.DISTRO == "unknown": c = "YELLOW"