how to determine kernel version

[Jeff Vian]

Bevan C. Bennett wrote:

> Christopher Ness wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 15:14, Ed Gurski wrote:
>>
>>> RPM="`rpm -qa|grep kernel-2|sort`"              # Show all installed
>>> kernels on this system
>>
>>
>>
>> Your comment isn't quite right...  You'll naturally only pick up the
>> kernels that `rpm` knows about.  Oh and only the 2.X series by your
>> grep, but who has a 1.X series kernel running these days?
>
>
> It also won't pick up the -smp kernels, which many people -are- running.
>
> Other possibilities include:
> ls /lib/modules
> ls /boot/vmlinuz*
> cat /etc/grub.conf (configured kernels only)

So modify the rpm statement  to "rpm =qa | grep kernel " or "rpm -qa 
kernel\*"  and it WILL show all kernels installed with rpm ( as well as 
all other kernel packages, source, etc) .