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November 5, 2009 at 19:55:47
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hi all,
i typed in 'uname -X' on my solaris server to find out version of solaris and it spat out the following :

System = SunOS
Node = [name]
Release = 5.10
KernelID = Generic_138888-01
Machine = sun4v
BusType = <unknown>
Serial = <unknown>
Users = <unknown>
OEM# = 0
Origin# = 1
NumCPU = 32


how do i know what version of Solaris is installed ??


thanks in advance


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November 6, 2009 at 13:30:26
Look at the release number:

Release = 5.10

The "5" designates the major release - System 5. The number after the decimal point is the version - 10 in your case. I'm using version 9 and it reads like this when executing the uname -a command:

SunOS doomsday 5.9 Generic_118559-39 i86pc i386 i86pc

The release number 5.9 is listed after the server name: doomsday



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March 10, 2011 at 05:11:45
>uname -r
5.5.1
>cat /etc/release
Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware 11/97 s596hw3_11 SPARC
Copyright 1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Manufactured in the USA 04 November 1997
Solaris 2.5.1 Maintenance Update 5
==
I think the cat command is a less confusing option. The Solaris system being run here is Version 2 (it is quite old). However the response to the uname command is 5.5.1. On the face of it the uname command suggests it is version 5 (which is incorrect - it is version 2)

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