[CentOS] how to check the version of centos
dnk
d.k.emaillists at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 15:03:32 UTC 2008
I seem to remember reading a release note somewhere that the way
centos 5 worked now was that the /etc/redhat-releases would not
reflect properly (man I wish I could find the reference to that).
And that you needed to do something like:
rpm -qa centos-release
For example on one of my systems, I do:
cat /etc/redhat-release
I get:
CentOS release 5 (Final)
But I know for sure that this system is a 5.1
So When i run the:
rpm -qa centos-release
I get:
centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1
Which seems more accurate.
DNK
On 3-Apr-08, at 7:46 AM, Greg Bailey wrote:
> Mail Administrator wrote:
>> Thanks guys for the quick reply
>>
>> btw cat /etc/redhat-release gives me
>>
>>
>> CentOS release 5 (Final)
>> so as per the FAQ guess its uptodate
>>
>>
>> thnks again
>> regards
>>
>> simon
>>
>
>
> Interesting that this seems to deviate from upstream. Checking an
> updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 box, I get:
>
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)
>
> Does anyone know what upstream does with the 5.1.z updates? Does /
> etc/redhat-release show "5.1.z" or something?
>
> -Greg
>
>
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