Glad it helped! d On 3-Apr-08, at 11:47 PM, Mail Administrator wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> > > > -- > Network ADMIN: > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos