From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 3:53:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.de (mailout05.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A6A37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 03:53:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 157xPe-0005Jh-01; Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:53:14 +0200 Received: from peedub.muc.de (320038014727-0001@[62.155.144.1]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 157xPZ-1U0EXAC; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:53:09 +0200 Received: by peedub.muc.de (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f57Aqxt83648; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:52:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gary Jennejohn Reply-To: garyj@jennejohn.org To: Nick Barnes , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware inventory command Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:52:57 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <1821.991907083@thrush.ravenbrook.com> In-Reply-To: <1821.991907083@thrush.ravenbrook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106071252570L.02054@peedub.muc.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Sender: 320038014727-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 07 June 2001 11:44, Nick Barnes wrote: > I want a command which will tell me what hardware I have on my system. > Akin to 'hinv' on Irix. I can get this information from dmesg, or > from /var/log/messages, if the last reboot wasn't too long ago, but if > a system has been up for months or years I don't really want to have > to reboot to get this information. > > It seems likely that this wouldn't be too hard for a kvm program. > > Nick B > /var/run/dmesg.boot is a persistent copy of the boot messages is is only changed when you reboot. -- Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message