This is what you said lingu > Hi all, > > In earlier version of RHEL one could simply dump out > /etc/redhat-release to determine if an install was WS, ES or AS. For > example: > > cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 4) > > cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) > >>From what I can find the distinction between AP and base Server has > been lost for release 5 with both showing: > > cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga) > Besides cat /etc/issue, cat /proc/version, and what you have already done, one command that is rarely mentioned is 'lsb_release -a'. It is not available with every distro, and even in this specific case it did not give any better results on a CentOS 5.2 server. Unfortunately, that exhausts all of the methods I have ever used in the past, and apparently I don't have a good answer for you. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list