From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 21:46:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06879 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:46:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06860 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:46:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02753; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:46:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:46:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: David Wolfskill cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone working on porting "sysinfo"? In-Reply-To: <199806121602.JAA08546@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:58:46 -0700 (PDT) > >From: Doug White > > >I don't see if it tells you more than dmesg ++rc.conf. > > Well, it does it for multiple platforms, which is an issue for me. > > It does it in a relatively platform-independent way. > > It is also capable of depicting such things as disk partitioning, which > would be an extremely useful adjunct to full backups for contingency > planning, especially since it can to this automatically -- thus removing > an element of human fallibility. I still don't see anything here that's truly important. If you back up: /etc/* /usr/local/etc/* `ls -l /var/db/' # installed packages /sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL # hardware setup you can easily resurrect a wrecked system. When people have problems, I usually ask for `dmesg' first, then any application-specific setup files. Massive output with lots of irrelevant bits from a program would just lead to -questions bloat. Anyway, this is academic; if you'd like to see a tool like the below, then hack something up. This _is_ a volunteer project after all ;) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message