Alex Birch on Sun, 14 Sep 2003 18:20:18 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] version?


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On Friday 12 September 2003 02:16 pm, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Bill Patterson wrote:
> > Is there a command in RedHat (or any other distro) to yield the version
> > number?
>
> cat /proc/version if you want the kernel's version number (rather than the
> distro's).
uname -a is similar

kes@birch:~$ uname -a
Linux birch.chem.usu.edu 2.4.20-1-k7 #1 Sat Mar 22 15:17:52 EST 2003 i686 GNU/
Linux


kes@birch:~$ cat /proc/version 
Linux version 2.4.20-1-k7 (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 
(Debian prerelease)) #1 Sat Mar 22 15:17:52 EST 2003
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