topic Re: command to display OS date and version in Operating System - HP-UX

command to display OS date and version

Jeffrey Shannon — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:27:12 GMT

What is the command to display the date (month and year) and version of the OS running?

Re: command to display OS date and version

Geoff Wild — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:33:18 GMT

Well, to get the date, just type:

date

To get the OS rev, just type:

uname -a

If you want something more elaborate, I have some scripts that get more information about the system for you - like risc chip, cpu speed, memory, etc.

Rgds...Geoff

Re: command to display OS date and version

MCP-DOC — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:33:23 GMT

try for date and time $ date

for OS try $ uname -a

Re: command to display OS date and version

Duncan Edmonstone — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:33:43 GMT

uname will give you the version of the OS.

With regards to month and year - well swlist will give you some info about the latest patch bundles installed if that helps, or you could not 'what /stand/vmunix'

HTH

Duncan

Re: command to display OS date and version

Insu Kim — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:34:21 GMT

# date
# uname -r

Re: command to display OS date and version

Jeffrey Shannon — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:38:03 GMT

Sorry for being to vague, I need the the version and the date of this version...i.e. September 1999 11.00 OS....any help?

Re: command to display OS date and version

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:38:51 GMT

Hi Jeffrey:

# uname -r

...will return the O/S version.

The date probably can best be described by examining the general patch level with something like:

# swlist|grep -i XSW

...and looking for General Release (GR) or Quality Pack (QPK), etc. patch bundle dates.

See here, for the original release dates of various O/S levels:

http://www.software.hp.com/HPUX-RDMP/history/slide2.html

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: command to display OS date and version

Geoff Wild — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:01:53 GMT

Jeff,

Do you want to know which HP-UX Realease CD was orginally used to install the OS on a server?

That would be difficult - you would have to compare versions of software installed with those on various cd's.

Rgds...Geoff

Re: command to display OS date and version

Bill Hassell — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:05:14 GMT

There is no location that remains intact as far as the original kernel installation version. Every kernel patch changes the effective revision date of the kernel. When a requirement is stated: must be the Dec 1999 version of the kernel, adding the SupportPlus patches (both HWCR and GR) your kernel will be effectively updated to the date of the SupportPlus CD.

Re: command to display OS date and version

Mary Ann Lipa — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 05:39:19 GMT

#uname -a <<--- OS version, license, etc
#date <<--- date and time,
-u for Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), functionally equivalent to
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), instead
of local time
#model <<--- for the model of your machine

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