Sun Microsystems STOREDGE A5000, Installation And Service Manual

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8-2 Sun StorEdge A5000 Installation and Service Manual • September 1999
8.1 Solaris Release and Installed Patches
8.1.1 Checking the Solaris Release
●
To check the release of Solaris operating environment on your system, either use
the
uname -a
command or look at the
/etc/release
file.
Note –
The
uname -a
command does not currently display the sub-release
information (such as s297) that may be relevant to some installations. The
/etc/release
file is not present on systems running the Solaris 2.5.1 operating
environment or previous releases.
8.1.2 Checking for an Installed Patch
● To check for an installed patch, use the
showrev -p
command and
grep
for the
patch number.
For example:
For instructions on patch installation, read the
README
text file that accompanies the
patch.
# uname -a
SunOS tm2 5.6 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
# cat /etc/release
Solaris 2.6 s297s_smccDesktop_37cshwp SPARC
Copyright 1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
Manufactured in the USA 18 July 1997
#
# showrev -p | grep 105375
Patch: 105375-04 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages:
SUNWluxal, SUNWluxdv, SUNWluxop
#