Re: Re: [twincling] shell commands query

2008-05-13 Thread Rohan Sehgal
Also you can try the command lshw, also there is a tool called scanModem which gives very detailed chipset information, can be downloaded from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz. Regards, Rohan On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Niraj khatod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try

Re: Re: [twincling] shell commands query

2008-05-13 Thread Niraj khatod
Try running every command u learn using 'strace' eg 'strace ls' - that would show you the system calls that a command makes and would give you more insights into the working of system/kernel. it would be helpful if you u wish to take system programming.similarly 'ltrace ur command' would

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

2008-05-12 Thread Bhagwat Masalkar
hi navneet thanks for sharing this information, I am looking for the CPU usage by a particular precess, will top command gives me exact results? thanks bhagwat On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Navneet Sreeraman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kazi! You can find everything in the /proc file

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

2008-05-12 Thread Satish Eerpini
yes top will give the exact detials , it will by default list all the processes in the decreasing order of cpu usage ! check out the other options for top ! Satish On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Bhagwat Masalkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi navneet thanks for sharing this information, I

[twincling] shell commands query

2008-05-11 Thread Kazi
hello all, i am new to Linux (Ubuntu) and would like to explore this operating system. i would like to run a shell command or a set of commands to know the system name, number of CPUs, CPU clock frequency, RAM size, number of disks. Can you tell me the commands. Regards

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

2008-05-11 Thread Satish Eerpini
Hi Kazi, well i do not know the exact commands for all the above things (or even if they exist), all this information(and a lot more) can be easily extracted from the /proc filesystem,... the required cat commands are : cat /proc/meminfo # for details about RAM cat /proc/scsi/scsi# for

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

2008-05-11 Thread Mayank Rungta
I can suggest few commands : uname -a gives the kernel details cat /etc/issue details of the but this varies with distros so cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu details cat /proc/meminfo memory details top also gives details about swap space, ram, and the current utilization per process hope this

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

2008-05-11 Thread Navneet Sreeraman
Hi Kazi! You can find everything in the /proc file system. 1. Use the less /proc/cpuinfo to get all info about the processor(s) in your system. 2. Use the less /proc/meminfo to get info on the memory details. 3. You also can use the free -m to see the memory status in megabytes.

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

2008-05-11 Thread sridhar Reddy
Hi Kazi, To get started in Linux / unix shell http://www.shelldorado.com/ Sridhar please refer this site. On 5/11/08, Navneet Sreeraman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kazi! You can find everything in the /proc file system. 1. Use the less /proc/cpuinfo to get all info about the

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

2008-05-11 Thread srinivas raj
i would suggest to use the lshw command, this will give all the info abt all the h/w present on ur computer note : this needs to be run as sudo -srini On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Navneet Sreeraman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kazi! You can find everything in the /proc file system.