Re: gathering system information
On 2016-06-02 08:06, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> I am planning to develop a script that gathers all the _relevant_
> system information for common configuration tasks such as sound,
> graphics, wireless, network, printer etc.
>
> Here is a proof of concept
> https://gitlab.com/d3k2mk7/rutils/blob/master/debian_user/gather_system_info.py
> which gathers information related to the sound task such as sound card
> information, kernel modules loaded, debian version, kernel version
> etc., Appendix shows a sample run on my system.
>
> Similar things can be done for other tasks. For example, to address X
> related issues, the script may parse Xorg.0.log for relevant errors,
> show what graphics driver packages are installed, show information on
> the graphics adapter etc.,
>
> The general idea is that if a user is having trouble configuring these
> tasks (ex:- sound/printer does not work), he can simply copy paste the
> output of this single script in the email to debian-user mailing list
> as opposed to gathering everything manually.
>
> What do you think? Is it a useful/stupid idea? Any
> feedback/comments/criticism are greatly appreciated (no matter how
> small you think they are).
Part of what you want was already done by Karsten M. Self. I remember using a
shell script by him in around 2002. You might try Google if you can find a copy
of that script. I think it was called systeminfo.
Grx HdV
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