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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:52:57 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
To:        Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hardware inventory command
Message-ID:  <0106071252570L.02054@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: <1821.991907083@thrush.ravenbrook.com>
References:  <1821.991907083@thrush.ravenbrook.com>

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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

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