How Do I Tell Which Version? 1

[SamBones]

Howdy,

I know I can get the OS version with a "[tt]uname[/tt]" command, but how do I equate that to RedHat AS3, or ES4, or AS5, or whatever else there might be.

For example...

# uname -a
Linux servername 2.6.9-67.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 7 13:58:04 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

How do I tell which "version" of RedHat that is?

 

[danomac]

To get the redhat version, use:

$ cat /etc/redhat-release

Or at least that's how I found out years ago.

 

[SamBones]

Thanks danomac. Do you know if that is kept up to date during kernel patches and upgrades? It is just a text file after all.

 

[danomac]

Going from (a very sketchy) memory: If you do a major upgrade it should update that text file. The "redhat version" is specifically referring to a core set of system utilities installed. You may see an option to update to a newer release in the updater, but you need to specifically choose this; it won't do it automatically.

 

[SamBones]

I also found this, which seems to give major and minor version numbers. Just a little more info.

# rpm -q redhat-release
redhat-release-3AS-7.3

Thanks for the help! A star for you!