Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:42:00 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice-5.0... Message-ID: <199811121942.LAA28198@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199811120236.SAA06936@dingo.cdrom.com>
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>Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:36:09 -0800 >From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> >> When talkign with friends that use Linux, and talking about our >> /proc file system, they think its hilarious that I can't go into proc and >> find out what irqs are being used by the system...maybe I'm missing >> something, but about the only way I can do it currently is to look through >> dmesg output? Is there another way? >I have to ask - why do you care? I can think of much better things to >do with my time than stare at the list of IRQ's in use - what do they >expect them to do? A little song and dance number perhaps? Well, one example of something I would like to be able to do is to have an automatic procedure (say, a script) that I could run on a box and get enough information that I could squirrel away (off-site, for example) so that, given the list and enough money, I could specify what parts to buy so the machine could be re-created (and so that once the off-site backups were restored, I'd have a fairly good approximation to the original machine). Even better: I'd like for a person who is not necessarily a FreeBSD wizard be able to read the list, specify the parts, and assemble them into a working whole. >(If you need the information, try 'systat -vmstat'.) That may well be useful for many purposes. It's not at all obvious that it's useful for what I'm trying to do. So far, looking at /var/run/dmesg.boot comes closest that I've been able to find, but there's very little there about the video card(s?), for example. 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-current" in the body of the message
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