Linux Version

[ETAC]

I am trying to find a command that will give me the Linux OS and version. Uname -r gives me the kernel version but I am looking for somthing along the lines of the ver command in windows.

 

[Annihilannic]

There isn't really any such thing. Windows is a monolithic piece of software from one vendor, Linux is a collection of thousands of pieces of software from many contributers.

uname -r is probably the closest you will get to ver, bot some distributions have release levels that you can check, for example Red Hat store it in /etc/redhat-release, SuSE in /etc/SuSE-release, ...

If you know which Linux distribution you are using that would help?

Annihilannic.

 

[ETAC]

I beleive it is redhat ENTERPRISE LINUX WS Version 4, but I need to confirm this.

 

[ETAC]

Perfect. Thanks ver much

# cat redhat-release

# Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 4)

 

[ZaSter]

One way is to query the Red Hat RPM database:

rpm -qa | grep -i release

That will produce a line such as:

redhat-release-4WS-3

Which is RedHat Enterprise 4 Work Station Update 3.

That help?