On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
If I wanted to write a script to obtain distro flavor (Ubuntu, CentOS,
RH, Mint, BSD, Solaris, etc), major/minor version (5.3, 10.6, etc),
hardware brand/make/model, at least for starters, what would be the
best way to attack it?
My approach
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 12:27:48PM -0400, Kurt Keville wrote:
root@J1:~# uname -a
Linux J1 3.0.0-9-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 23 17:02:50 UTC 2011
i686athlon i386 GNU/Linux
since it is Ubuntu and I have a date, I should be able to divine the
distro... but 3.0.0-9-generic is unique
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.org wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 12:27:48PM -0400, Kurt Keville wrote:
root@J1:~# uname -a
Linux J1 3.0.0-9-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 23 17:02:50 UTC 2011
i686athlon i386 GNU/Linux
since it is Ubuntu and I have a
It is the rare install indeed that won't be well-described by the
command line calls you have identified... on the remote chance you
don't have an /etc/issue you should be able to grep dmesg for some
keyword like version ... and if lspci doesn't tell you the exact
motherboard you have, you can
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Scott Ehrlich srehrl...@gmail.com wrote:
If I wanted to write a script to obtain distro flavor (Ubuntu, CentOS,
RH, Mint, BSD, Solaris, etc), major/minor version (5.3, 10.6, etc),
hardware brand/make/model, at least for starters, what would be the
best way to
I'd take a look at the perl script memconf and see how it works. Even
though it was written for Solaris, it does a decent job on Linux. It
does like to be run as root, however.
http://www.4schmidts.com/unix.html
There is a package lshw on Fedora (among others) you could look at the
Noah Friedman friedman aaat splode dawt com maintains a shell
script that is basically GNU autoconf's hosttype detection logic,
standalone. It doesn't need root, but in some obscure situations may
require a C compiler.
It is certainly thermonuclear overkill for your situation, but will
