SYSINFO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 26 April 1992
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NAME

sysinfo - Display system information  

SYNOPSIS

sysinfo [ +|-all ] [ -level level1,level2,... ] [ -show item1,item2,... ] [ +|-terse ] [ +|-unknown ]

sysinfo -list [ level|show ]

sysinfo -version  

DESCRIPTION

Sysinfo displays certain pieces of system information for the current host. By default, sysinfo displays all system information it knows about in verbose mode. This includes:
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Host name
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Host name aliases
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Host network addresses
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Host ID
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System serial number
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Manufacturer of the system's hardware
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CPU model name
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CPU type
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Application architecture
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Kernel architecture
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Amount of main memory
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Operating system name
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Operating system version
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Kernel version
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A variety of information about devices.

By default, sysinfo will display most info items it knows about. Specific items may be exclusively shown by using the -show option and specifying a comma seperated list of items.  

OPTIONS

+|-all
Enable (+all) or disable (-all) displaying all known information. This option is enabled by default.
-level levels
Set the show level. levels is a comma seperated list of values used to determine what levels of information will be displayed. Use the -list level option to get a list of valid levels.
-list [ level|show ]
List all the possible values that may be used with an option. Specifying -list show will list possible values for use with the -show option. Specifying -list level will list possible values for use with the -level option.
+|-terse
Enable (+terse) or disable (-terse) showing items in terse format. When enabled this usually means that the field label for each item is not displayed. This option is disabled by default.
-show item1,item2,...
Show information only about each comma seperated item. A current list of valid item names can be determined by using the -list show option.
+|-unknown
Enable (+unknown) or disable (-unknown) showing devices that appear to be present on the system, but are not "known" to sysinfo. This option is disabled by default.
-version
Show version information for sysinfo.
 

AUTHOR

Michael A. Cooper,
University Computing Services,
University of Southern California.  

FILES

/etc/cpumodel.name     - Explicitly set the CPU model name
 

SEE ALSO

gethostid(2), gethostname(2), gethostbyname(3)  

DIAGNOSTICS

%x: Unknown CPU type.
The CPU model for the current host could not be determined.
(unknown)
Information could not be determined for this item.
 

BUGS

Not all operating systems support interfaces to various pieces of information that sysinfo supports.

Some devices, mostly devices that use removable media such as tape drives and floppy disks, are only indicated (shown) as present if media is loaded in the device and it's on-line. This occurs because the OS does not provide a software interface to query the device when media is not loaded.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
AUTHOR
FILES
SEE ALSO
DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS

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