From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 18:30:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CC716A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:30:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E17843D1D for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:30:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iB2IUJQg042275; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:30:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:30:18 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Alvaro Rosales Message-ID: <20041202183016.GA96824@dan.emsphone.com> References: <41AF5282.10200@umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick and Simple question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:30:21 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 02), Alvaro Rosales said: > Hello Guys a quick and simple question. Which command line should I > use to see the type of processor I am using? The file /var/run/dmesg.boot will give you a lot of detail, some of which is stored in the "hw" sysctl tree for easy retrieval by scripts or programs. hw.machine, hw.model, and hw.clockrate for example. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com