[SunHELP] How to tell the Version of Solaris installed ? uname not good enough !

[Edward Chase]

postoffice bash ~ -> cat /etc/release
                            Solaris 8 s28_38shwp2 SPARC
            Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                             Assembled 21 January 2000

So, what have I got here?  It doesn't fit any of the dates below.




At 01:08 AM 5/29/2001 -0500, James wrote:

>cat /etc/release
>
>You'll be able to tell which Solaris build you have, the date of release, as
>well as the Maintenance Update, if any, that has been applied.
>
>Thus spake Foong, Tzeweng (Tzeweng.Foong at team.telstra.com):
>
> > I would like to know how to find out the version of solaris installed
> > on any particular sparc box. I have looks around a bit but the best
> > I have found is the "uname -a" but thats not enough.
> >
> > uname -a tells me the main version ie 5.8 for solaris 8 but I am
> > interested to find out the actual release of the software for example.
> > Solaris 8 has got the March 2000, the October 2000, January 2001
> > and April 2001 releases. How do I know which is really installed ?

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