topic Re: How to know the update in Operating System - Linux

How to know the update

Tonatiuh — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:43:44 GMT

How can I know the UPDATE of my RHEL AS 3 installed?

Re: How to know the update

Alexander Chuzhoy — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:47:44 GMT

you can look in the default /etc/issue file.
If you updated the OS-you'll see a release + and an update version.

Re: How to know the update

Tonatiuh — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:58:30 GMT

I only see the release but not the update

[oracle@RAC1 oracle]$ cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)
Kernel \r on an \m

Re: How to know the update

John Pretti — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:06:08 GMT

You can view the log file /var/log/up2date. That will tell you exactly which packages were updated and if they completed sucessfully.

You could also view the installed rpm by issuing:

example to see installed openssh:
rpm -qa|grep openssh

Simply subsitute the package name for openssh and you can see the current version.

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
John

Re: How to know the update

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:09:34 GMT

Tonatiuh,
according to your issue file [the same info you can see in /etc/redhat-release file] your system or RHEL 3 "out-of-the-box" version or you didn't upgrade redhat-release package.