CentOS

Yes, sure. I understand that. But we install only patches where were security issues fixed.
Thanks for your help.

Updating just the centos-release package does not get you to 5.11. You need to run yum update and apply all packages to do that. But kernel is of CentOS 5.11, and probably has pulled all needed dependencies. do i still need to update all packages. We using third party tool to apply only critical pa...

Many Thanks Trevor for explanation. Right on the first machine Oracle db is installed that is why file has been changed to Red Hat release. On the second machine i have updated centos-release package and it shows right version of CentOS. [root@mec-qa-rbs-03 ~]# cat /etc/issue CentOS release 5.11 (Fi...

Thank you Trevor for the quick answer. I am aware of that CentOS out of date. But at this moment we cannot replace it. Why im asking this, because output on different CentOS confused me. more details: This is the first machine [root@be-build-rd-02 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux...

Hi All. Can you help me please, im a little bit confused. Cannot understand which version is this. 1. first output: cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga) 2. second output : cat /etc/issue CentOS release 5.6 (Final) What is the right version (RH or CentOS) ? al...