[CentOS] how to check the version of centos

[Mail Administrator]

Thanks DNK,

u r absolutely right
the cat /etc/redhat-release does not reflect the version correctly
but the rpm -q centos-release does it perfectly

thnksss n really apprecite

cheers


regards

simon


> 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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