Determine RH Version From Command Line

[Pleiades]

Can anyone point me to a command that gives the version of Red Hat, from the command prompt? I have easy ssh access to quite a few RH machines at my new job, but some are in different states, so a bit of a problem walking up to the console.

[mechdave]

uname -a will give you all the details, eg

mechdave@localhost$] uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 #1 SMP Sat Feb 10 15:03:33 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[peter]

Use the "cat" command to look inside either one of these files.

[root@bigboy ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
[root@bigboy ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
[root@bigboy ~]#

[Pleiades]

Champion! Thanks to both of you.

[hrishikesh]

You can also see through cat /etc/issue, or just go to the terminal window (ctrl-alt-F1) and there you can see the version above the login option.