8 Aug
2010
8 Aug
'10
7:56 p.m.
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 01:29:48PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
Depends. Most people do update as new updates come out. Doing 'yum update' regularly will update to newer point releases automagically. Some people (for various reasons) don't regularly update their systems.
Look in /etc/issue
Why? That file bears no relation to system identification purposes. "uname -a" followed by "rpm -q centos-release" will properly identify a system release level.
John
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