On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:18, Todd Walton wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 9:22 AM, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. It's called the linux kernel. > > I don't think I have that installed. At least, I can't seem to find > the command to run that. > > Yes, dmesg, /proc, and the like, let me know all about what I have. > And, to tell you the truth, I didn't think about those when I asked > the question. But, this doesn't quite meet what I'm wishing for. > This gives much more info than I want, and information is dispersed > across various points. What I'd like is for all relevant information > to be collected in one spot, and given in a report format. Something > I can print out and keep on file. I'm sending a computer to a granny > user (thanks, Lan) halfway across the country, and I want to have > user-level info on hand in case there are problems. I may just copy > down information bit by bit from dmesg and ilk. I'm also going to > take screenshots of the Gnome preference dialogs, so I can walk him > through those if need be. > > -todd
in a non-scripted fashion, sure to get the perl / python / builtins camp "I can script that in 4, 3 , 2 lines" competition going: date >grannys_pc.txt uname -a >>grannys_pc.txt cat /etc/issue >>grannys_pc.txt dmesg >>grannys_pc.txt /sbin/lspci >>grannys_pc.txt /sbin/lsusb >>grannys_pc.txt lpr grannys_pc.txt probably some info overlap there. You should keep the file on your PC so you can grep through it for relevant stuff instead of printing. Paper is an abomination for doing that. C.
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