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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:22:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Gallagher <mgllghr@bu.edu>
To:        Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hardware inventory command
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.4.10.10106070620200.38460-100000@acstmp.bu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1821.991907083@thrush.ravenbrook.com>

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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.

~mike


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