command to display OS date and version

[Jeffrey Shannon]

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

[Geoff Wild]

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

[MCP-DOC]

try for date and time $ date

for OS try $ uname -a

[Duncan Edmonstone]

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

[Insu Kim]

# date
# uname -r

[Jeffrey Shannon]

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?

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

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...

[Geoff Wild]

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

[Bill Hassell]

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.

[Mary Ann Lipa]

#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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