Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)
On (22/12/04 14:13), Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:25:57PM -0600, J.A. de Vries (hdv@jadev.org) wrote:
> > 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.
>
> http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript
>
> There's also a Debian package, IIRC 'si', which gleans data out of /proc
> and other sources.
I looked in the sid archive; couldn't find si
>
> For those with access to The Lesser OS, there's a utility called Belarc
> which provides a generous amount of system information:
>
> www.belarc.com/free_download.html
>
>
> The hardware inventory is particularly comprehensive, including such
> things as the chassis serial number, memory type, CPU information, and a
> comprehensive list of software. Working some of that information into a
> GNU/Linux utility would be tres cool.
Belarc is pretty impressive; lshw seems to take care of the hardware
side of things quite well?
Regards
Clive
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