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From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>
To: garyj@jennejohn.org
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: hardware inventory command 
In-Reply-To: Message from Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> 
   of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:52:57 +0200." <0106071252570L.02054@peedub.muc.de> 
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:12:36 +0100
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At 2001-06-07 10:52:57+0000, Gary Jennejohn writes:
> 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.

Thanks; this is what I need. Some sort of hinv would still be nice.
I'm thinking of writing one (basically traversing the device tree).

Nick B

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