version and vendor information

[Amit_81]

Help please, I want to get version and vendor information of some softwares e.g. ftp, rlogin ..is there any way to do it

[Arunvijai_4]

What is a good command to get good information regarding some softwares.

# what /usr/bin/rlogin
/usr/bin/rlogin:
$Revision: vw: cheriv_JAGad35417 selectors: CUPI80_BL2000_1025 'cup_cheriv_jagad35417'
Thu Oct 26 23:26:04 PDT 2000 $
Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.

-Arun

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

what command will help. if it is a depot file, there would usually be some description. also, look out for README file.

regards.

[Orhan Biyiklioglu]

if the software comes as a depot swlist should also provide useful information.

swlist -v hpuxwsApache

[Muthukumar_5]

Some softwares are coming with option -v to get version information. Few of software is not having explicit option to find with -v option.

We can find with,
# odump -auxheader

when the binary is PA-RISC based one.

If it is ELF then use elfdump command.

hth.

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

What is the most common one.

A typical Gnu program has the -v or -version option.

Usually the man page gives this information also.

[VIKAS AGRAWAL]

use what command or swlist both will help to get the version

[morganelan]

Try this:
# man rlogin|grep developed
Reformatting entry. Wait... rlogin was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
# man ftp|grep developed
Reformatting entry. Wait... ftp was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
# man telnet|grep developed
Reformatting entry. Wait... telnet was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
# man top|grep developed
Reformatting entry. Wait... top was developed by HP and William LeFebvre of Rice University.