Re: how to check the version of centos

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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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