Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:16:24 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Anyone working on porting "sysinfo"? Message-ID: <199806102016.NAA21948@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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This may well be borderline hacker-ish, given what sysinfo does for a living... but I already posted to -hackers today, and I think that's my quota.... :-) Anyway, I've come to heartily appreciate the "sysinfo" program (used to be at ftp.usc.edu; now see http://www.magnocomp.com/). It is capable of telling you more than you really wanted to know about a system... for systems that it supports. Since much of my previous (and present) life has been in a SunOS or Solaris 2.x environment, the program has proven quite useful, especially in an environment that has both of these. (The vendor-supplied "prtconf" is also useful for Solaris 2.x, but not SunOS 4.x.) In particular, for disaster recovery preparedness, I would like to have a simple way to get a (fairly) uniform depiction of the configuration of the important machines on a set of networks. I would like to do this in conjunction with certain backups -- such as the full backups. It could also be useful for reducing uncertainty as to what someone's configuration is -- both for that "someone" and for someone trying to solve a problem for said someone. It would also be useful for a sysadmin (like me) who needs to support configurations that aren't necessarily known ahead of time. Now: there is evidently no known port of sysinfo to FreeBSD. (I just received confirmation of this from Michael Cooper, author of sysinfo.) Before I get too carried away in various things, I'm wondering if anyone else has begun an attempt to port sysinfo to FreeBSD (2.x, in my case). No promises, but I *think* I may be able to justify spending some of my time to make this work.... Thanks, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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