From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 3:22:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from acstmp.bu.edu (acstmp.bu.edu [128.197.153.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B98037B403 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 03:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mgllghr@bu.edu) Received: from localhost (mgllghr@localhost) by acstmp.bu.edu ((8.9.3.buoit.v1.0.ACS)/) with ESMTP id GAA21696; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:22:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:22:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Gallagher To: Nick Barnes Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware inventory command In-Reply-To: <1821.991907083@thrush.ravenbrook.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Nick Barnes wrote: > I want a command which will tell me what hardware I have on my system. > Akin to 'hinv' on Irix. I can get this information from dmesg, or > from /var/log/messages, if the last reboot wasn't too long ago, but if > a system has been up for months or years I don't really want to have > to reboot to get this information. You can run dmesg any time. Doesn't matter when you last rebooted. Just type it at the shell. At least that's what I've always done. ~mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message