System Information

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In Brief

Collect critical system information for easy reference in one text file.

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Posted:	18 Nov 2005
File Size:	859 Bytes
License:	GPL
Download:	/coolsolutions/tools/downloads/sysinfo.zip
Publisher:	David L. Austin

Disclaimer

Please read the note from our friends in legal before using this file.

Details

This tool is for any products running Linux. It was written on a workstation running SUSE Linux Professional 9.3. Helpful for Newbies (such as I).

This tool was written to easily collect the basic system information that I might need to be able to reinstall my system. Also, it was an exercise in writing a shell script. You must "chown root:root ./sysinfo.sh" the file and then run it as root since it accesses files that only root has access to.

Save the file to your home folder, open a console window, "su -" to root, "cd" to your home directory, type "./sysinfo.sh" .

It will collect information from your HOSTNAME, hosts, fstab, mtab and /etc/samba/smb.conf files. Also, it gathers your ifconfig settings.

If you would like to add, delete or change any of the information collected, open ./sysinfo.sh in your favorite text editor and hack away.

All collected data is output to the file ./systeminformation.txt . You might want to add a line in the file for it to "cat ./systeminformation.txt" to see the settings on screen, or "cat ./systeminformation.txt > lpr" to keep a printed copy of your settings.

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Reader Comments

• Skript does not run on bash-2.05b-105
• Possible solution for above, try running 'dos2unix' on the file....
• Frankly speaking - it is useless
• It is too small to be of any use