Linux server detection

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Server is RHEL 7 but below screen dump is showing Linux RedHat , how to check why it is not comming up with the proper RHEL 7 ? due to this i am not able to see the applicable fixlet

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What distribution are you using. This would be in /etc/redhat-release

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The version shown (and in 9.5 or later its made more obvious) is the Kernel information so this is 3.10.0-229 which is RHE 7.1 but if this is a non Workstation/Server/Desktop distro, we don’t always support those directly

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root@test:~# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.1 (Maipo)
root@test:~# uname -a
Linux test 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 18:37:38 EST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@test:~#

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What type of device is this ? I’ve seen something like that when the device is actually a Linux container - like a docker container.

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I am not sure as of now but need to check with Linux team, is there any way that i can check the type of device from bigfix?

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If device is a linux container or docker container that what different it makes? can’t we patch this machine?

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Are there any other “-release” files in /etc?

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root@test:~# ls -l /etc/*-release
-rw-r–r--. 1 root root 495 Feb 2 2015 /etc/os-release
-rw-r–r--. 1 root root 44 Jun 30 11:31 /etc/redhat-release
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Jun 27 15:35 /etc/system-release -> redhat-release
root@test:~# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
VERSION="7.1 (Maipo)"
ID="rhel"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VERSION_ID="7.1"
PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.1 (Maipo)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.1:GA:server"
HOME_URL="https://www.redhat.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugzilla.redhat.com/”

REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=7.1
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7.1"
root@test:~# cat /etc/system-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.1 (Maipo)
root@test:~# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.1 (Maipo)
root@test:~#

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It is VMware Guest, (ESXi 5.5).

root@test:/opt/BESClient/bin# ./qna
Default masthead location, using /etc/opt/BESClient/actionsite.afxm
Q: operating system
A: Linux Red Hat 4.8.3-7 (3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64)

How this operating system command shows different version?

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The form of the redhat-release file doesn’t quite match anything that is normally there so this is the reason. This must be a slightly different distribution.

I’d suggest you open a PMR

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Ok, thanks i opened PMR .