On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote: >> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:04 +0100, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: >>> I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can >>> 1) Check the version of my cent os >> >> lsb_release -a I believe you need to install the package to get lsb_release. It is not present in my minimal server install. > >From the question, he wants to know the version of CentOS, not the LSB info. > > rpm -q centos-release The default content in the file /etc/issue comes with Distro name + version number (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu in my case). -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device