How to determine the current update level of the system

Question

How can we determine the current update level of the system. uname -a shows the release but how to obtain the update level through a program?
I have this sample program to display the version
#include <iostream>
#include <sys/utsname.h>
#include <dirent.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
  struct utsname osinfo;
  // Call uname to get system info, then extract strings.
  uname(&osinfo);
  if (osinfo.machine)  {
    cout<<" Machine : "<<  osinfo.machine;
  if (osinfo.sysname)  {
    cout << "\nOS Name : " << osinfo.sysname;
if (osinfo.release[0] != '\0')  {
    cout<<"\nRelease : " << osinfo.release;
}My aim is to check if the Solaris box is 5.10 update 4 or not.
Edited by: nidhish9 on Nov 27, 2007 5:11 AM

Answer 1

nidhish9 wrote:
How can we determine the current update level of the system. uname -a shows the release but how to obtain the update level through a program?
I have this sample program to display the version
#include <iostream>
#include <sys/utsname.h>
#include <dirent.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
struct utsname osinfo;
// Call uname to get system info, then extract strings.
uname(&osinfo);
if (osinfo.machine)  {
cout<<" Machine : "<<  osinfo.machine;
if (osinfo.sysname)  {
cout << "\nOS Name : " << osinfo.sysname;
if (osinfo.release[0] != '\0')  {
cout<<"\nRelease : " << osinfo.release;
}My aim is to check if the Solaris box is 5.10 update 4 or not.
Edited by: nidhish9 on Nov 27, 2007 5:11 AMIt's in /etc/release...
essapd020-u004$ cat /etc/release
                       Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC
           Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                            Assembled 16 August 2007
essapd020-u004$ It can be processed with some simple commands:
essapd020-u004$ cat /etc/release | head -1
                       Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC
essapd020-u004$ cat /etc/release | head -1 | cut -f2 -d_ | cut -c1,2
u4
essapd020-u004$ Best,