Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:27:19 +0100 From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> To: Gallagher <mgllghr@bu.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware inventory command Message-ID: <2147.991909639@thrush.ravenbrook.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Gallagher <mgllghr@bu.edu> of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 06:22:29 EDT." <Pine.A41.4.10.10106070620200.38460-100000@acstmp.bu.edu>
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At 2001-06-07 10:22:29+0000, Gallagher writes: > > > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, 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. > > You can run dmesg any time. Doesn't matter when you last rebooted. Just > type it at the shell. At least that's what I've always done. But if the kernel message buffer has wrapped around in the meantime, that won't give me the boot-time messages. Nick B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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