Re: how to check the version of centos

[dnk <d.k.emaillists@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
> > >
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