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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Infrastructure Monitoring How to get the Linux system information? Post 302455364 by cjcox on Tuesday 21st of September 2010 11:05:09 AM
Old 09-21-2010
Well.. since you're posting in just about every forum group for pretty much the SAME thing... remember that dmidecode is out there for parsing smbios info. If you're on a SUSE variant or a debian variant that has it installed, then hwinfo pretty much gives you everything you'd ever want to know. It's similar to lshw, but even better. hwinfo looks at smbios, sysfs, procfs, devfs and does correlation. It's VERY impressive.


Generically, dmidecode is more prevalent. I'd look for hwinfo first then dmidecode. Up to you if you want to search for and use lshw if present. Then you can get information about the cpu from /proc/cpuinfo and you can get a lot of device information from /sys (sysfs).... realizing that it is EVOLVING and changes a lot from OS release to release (where present).

The other posts have already suggested other good places to look.
 

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update-rcconf-guide - Create default guide file for rcconf SYNOPSIS
update-rcconf-guide DESCRIPTION
Update-rcconf-guide creates the default guide file which rcconf uses. Update-rcconf-guide searches the package names corresponding to each service file in /etc/init.d directory from dpkg info files(/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list) and get the description of these packages using apt-cache. Update-rcconf-guide uses Short-Description in priority to the description if service files has Short-Description field. Update-rcconf-guide writes those results to /var/lib/rcconf/guide.default file. You can write your own guide in user guide file(/var/lib/rcconf/guide) by hand. Rcconf refers Guides in /var/lib/rcconf/guide before those in /var/lib/rcconf/guide.default. If you install some packages after executed update-rcconf-guide, you need to re-create this file using update-rcconf-guide so as to refresh guide.default that includes new guides for installed new services. Notice: update-rcconf-guide was not executed when you installed rcconf package. FILE
/var/lib/rcconf/guide.default Guide File update-rcconf-guide generates. /var/lib/rcconf/guide Guide File user(Administrator) can define. SEE ALSO
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