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INDEX ENTRY FOR SYSINFO:
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Name: sysinfo - Summarizes hardware and OS configuration
Version: 3.3.1
Author(s): Michael A. Cooper <MCooper@MagniComp.Com>
On the CD-ROM in: sysadm/sysinfo.tar
Ftp source: usc.edu:/pub/sysinfo
Size on the CD: 653 KB (uncompressed)
Description:
Sysinfo is a program which shows various pieces of information about
the hardware and operating system software configuration of the host
it's run on. The original version was written to simply determine
the model name of a system for use in /etc/motd. It also supported
a few other pieces of information that were simple to obtain, but the
method used to obtain the information on various different OS's
varied. The current version shows many different "general" bits of
system information as well as fairly detailed information about system
hardware devices (disk drives, frame buffers, tape drives, etc.),
kernel variables, and system configuration information. A lot of the
information Sysinfo displays is difficult, if not impossible, to
determine by normal OS commands and/or files after boot time on many OS's.
Most of the OS specific information was determined by groveling
/usr/include/{sys,machine,*dev}/*.h files, section 4 man pages, and
reverse engineering the output from various commands like devinfo
(SunOS) and using the trace(2) facility. Some of the network (netif)
code was inspired by the sources to the 4.3BSD netstat and ifconfig
commands.
-- Quoted from the README file by Michael Cooper in the sysinfo distribution
Advertised architectures:
Sysinfo has been tested on the platforms listed below. Sysinfo
may work under OS versions or platforms not listed below.
INFORMATION CLASSES SUPPORTED
PLATFORM General Device Kernel SysConf
============================== ======= ====== ====== =======
Sun SPARC / SunOS 4.1.4 X X X X
(SunOS 4.1.4 /usr/ucb/cc)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Sun SPARC / SunOS 5.4, 5.5 X X X X
(SunC 3.0.1)
---------------------------------------------------------------
IBM RS6000 / AIX 3.2.5 X X X
(XLC ??)
---------------------------------------------------------------
SGI IRIX 5.3, 6.1 X X X X
---------------------------------------------------------------
HP 9000/700 / HP-UX 9.05 X X X
(HP-UX C)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Convex SPP / SPP-UX 3.1 X X
(Convex C ?)
The README file also contains nice platform specific notes which
include quirks and installation hints.
Prerequisites: C Compiler, gunzip utility