The following is a demonstration of the osstat command. It is a convenient way to determine if your OS is upgraded while you are using it. Here we print out the OS version per second, 10 times. $ osstat 1 10 TIME OS_Ver u/s r/s i/s b/s 16:29:17 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16:29:18 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16:29:19 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16:29:20 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16:29:21 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16:29:22 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16:29:23 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16:29:24 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16:29:25 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16:29:26 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16:29:27 SunOS_5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Included in the output is, u/s - upgrades per second r/s - reboots per second i/s - initial installs per second b/s - BFUs per second (builds)