Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)
On 2004-12-21 @ 18:30:35 (week 52) Bob Alexander wrote:
> Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file backups.
>
> Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that
> would build a file with useful information. Here it is:
>
> lsmod
> lspci
> dpkg --get-selections
> sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
> df
> uname -a
>
> Now the questions:
>
> 1) Other useful commands I am not thinking about ?
> 2) I would like to redirect the output to a file called with the
> catenation of 'uname -n'.'uname -r'.config.YYYYMMDDHHMM.txt where
> YYYYMMDDHHMM is a timestamp of the command execution time. How do I
> obtain such value ? How do I create the required backticks on my laptop
> keyboard (no separate numpad)
> 3) If I use cron to run this everyday, being this a laptop client, will
> the due command be executed if it's natural time has expired ?
> 4) What is the easiest way to keep the last N versions of such files ?
Search Google for a script called system-info by Karsten M. Self. He
posted it a long time ago, but it still is very useful. Start from there
and add the things you want to have that are not already done by it.
Grx hdV
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