How to Display General System Information

1. To display general system information, use the showrev command.

   $ showrev options

   -a

   Prints all system revision information available.

   -c (command)

   Prints the revision information about command.

   -p

   Prints only the revision information about patches.

   -R (root_path)

   Defines the full path name of a directory to use as the root_path.

   -s (host name)

   Performs this operation on the specified host name.

   -w

   Prints only the OpenWindows revision information.

   You can also use the uname command to display system information. The following example shows the uname command output. The -a option displays the operating system name as well as the system node name, operating system release, operating system version, hardware name, and processor type.

   $ uname SunOS $ uname -a SunOS starbug 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 $

Example 5–3 Displaying General System Information

The following example shows the showrev command output. The -a option displays all available system information.

$ showrev -a
Hostname: stonetouch
Hostid: 8099dfb9
Release: 5.10
Kernel architecture: sun4u
Application architecture: sparc
Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
Domain: boulder.Central.Sun.COM
Kernel version: SunOS 5.10 s10_46

OpenWindows version: 
Solaris X11 Version 6.6.2 20 October 2003

No patches are installed