System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

How to Display System and Software Release Information

To display system information and software release information, use the showrev command.


$ showrev [-a]

The -a option displays all available system information.

Example—Displaying System and Software Release Information

The following example shows the showrev command output.


$ showrev -a
Hostname: starbug
Hostid: nnnnnnnn
Release: 5.9
Kernel architecture: sun4u
Application architecture: sparc
Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
Domain: solar.com
Kernel version: SunOS 5.9 May 2002

OpenWindows version: 
X11 Version 6.4.2 11 April 2001

No patches are installed
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