Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: System Information | Date | Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:35:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> |
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What kind of info?
The PnP project I'm working on reports info on all devices in the system vi /proc files (well, this is one of the ultimate goals at least).
> I am finally going to be free this summer starting in two weeks to do > a little programming on the side, before and after my field training. > I am interested in a System Information program. I don't know how many > of you have used Norton Utilities, WinProbe, Quarterdeck Manifest, or hell, > even MSD (Microsoft Debugging Utilit - comes with MSDOS), but I believe > we could all make like easier on each other if we had a standard way of > reporting the information of a system. > So I guess I have two questions. One, does something like this exist out > there?? And two, I have noticed most of the information is already on > the system, through various means such as /dev/kmem or /proc, the info > given from the netstat, df, and dmesg commands, and through a listing of > all the /lib stuff (for vers of libc etc). Does this sound like a project > that needs to be taken up? > I believe that the future development of kernels would be greatly aided > with a program like this, possible with an option to mail a concise list > of this stuff to an address. Just curious, and if you have any thoughts, > let me know. > > Thanks! > hartlw@rpi.edu > Matt Hartley > http://www.rpi.edu/~hartlw > >
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net http://www.redhat.com/~aem/ Linux Plug-and-Play Project http://www.redhat.com/pnp/ "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright
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