unix command equivalent of 'ver' in DOS

ambasite

hi, anyone know the unix command to display what version of unix is running? connected via telent sesson. thanks.

musiknonstop

uname -a

Try that. It works for Linux, maybe Unix too.

ambasite

musiknonstop wrote:

uname -a

Try that. It works for Linux, maybe Unix too.

cheers, got SunOS.

Skitbra

I think the best one would be:

cat /etc/issue

martinoc

Skitbra wrote:

I think the best one would be:

cat /etc/issue

No, /etc/issue is what is displayed on a console prior to log in. It does not necessarily give any info about which distribution or version thereof is running.

uname -a

provides the following information:

The name of the kernel
The hostname
The kernel release
The Kernel version
The machine architecture
The processor type
The operating system

hmboards

ambasite wrote:

cheers, got SunOS.

`cat /etc/release` gives the specific release of Solaris (which HW update is installed etc.)

ambasite

thanks:

$ cat /etc/release
Solaris 8 10/01 s28s_u6wos_08a SPARC
Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Assembled 12 September 2001
Solaris 8 Maintenance Update 7 applied
$ uname -a
SunOS polaris 5.8 Generic_117350-28 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
$