RHEL5 BASE AND ADVANCED PLATFORM CHECK

[Scott Ruckh]

> Hi all,
>
> In earlier version of RHEL one could simply dump out
> /etc/redhat-release to determine if an install was WS, ES or AS. For
> example:
>
>    cat /etc/redhat-release
>    Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
>
>    cat /etc/redhat-release
>    Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
>
>>From what I can find the distinction between AP and base Server has
> been lost for release 5 with both showing:
>
>    cat /etc/redhat-release
>    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)

I already responded to this, basically just to let you know that 
"lsb_release -a" does not work either.  So /proc/version, /etc/issue, and 
/etc/redhat-release all appear to contain similar information.  I do not 
know of any other method.