On (22/12/04 14:13), Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:25:57PM -0600, J.A. de Vries ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On 2004-12-21 @ 18:30:35 (week 52) Bob Alexander wrote: > > > > > Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file > > > backups. > > > > > > Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that > > > would build a file with useful information. Here it is: > > > > > > lsmod > > > lspci > > > dpkg --get-selections > > > sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda > > > df > > > uname -a > > > > > > Now the questions: > > > > > > 1) Other useful commands I am not thinking about ? > > > 2) I would like to redirect the output to a file called with the > > > catenation of 'uname -n'.'uname -r'.config.YYYYMMDDHHMM.txt where > > > YYYYMMDDHHMM is a timestamp of the command execution time. How do I > > > obtain such value ? How do I create the required backticks on my laptop > > > keyboard (no separate numpad) > > > 3) If I use cron to run this everyday, being this a laptop client, will > > > the due command be executed if it's natural time has expired ? > > > 4) What is the easiest way to keep the last N versions of such files ? > > > > Search Google for a script called system-info by Karsten M. Self. He > > posted it a long time ago, but it still is very useful. Start from there > > and add the things you want to have that are not already done by it. > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript > > There's also a Debian package, IIRC 'si', which gleans data out of /proc > and other sources. I looked in the sid archive; couldn't find si
> > For those with access to The Lesser OS, there's a utility called Belarc > which provides a generous amount of system information: > > www.belarc.com/free_download.html > > > The hardware inventory is particularly comprehensive, including such > things as the chassis serial number, memory type, CPU information, and a > comprehensive list of software. Working some of that information into a > GNU/Linux utility would be tres cool. Belarc is pretty impressive; lshw seems to take care of the hardware side of things quite well? Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
