Hi,
Sorry for the newbie question. I want to know if I can get the
hardware specs for a remote machine. I have a shell account and am
just curious about the hardware.

thanks,
Taylor

"Taylor" <cooltay99_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"cat /proc/pci" and examining the output of "dmesg" would be good places to
start.


tony

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cooltay99_2000@yahoo.com (Taylor),
In a message on 26 Feb 2004 15:49:20 -0800, wrote :

T> Hi,
T> Sorry for the newbie question. I want to know if I can get the
T> hardware specs for a remote machine. I have a shell account and am
T> just curious about the hardware.

cat /proc/pci
ls /proc/ide
ls /proc/scsi

Generally, you can look at the *named* files and directories under '/proc'.
The numbered directories are about *processes* -- all of the others are
about the 'system' -- what that kernel is up to and what the kernel knows
about the hardware (whats on the PCI bus, the IDE controllers, on the
SCSI bus(es), who has what IRQ, what I/O ports are in use, and so on.
Much of these stuff is plain text files, often quite understandable.

T>
T> thanks,
T> Taylor
T>

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Robert Heller wrote:
a /proc filesystem. I think the first thing I would
try is uname -a. That would work on any Unix system.
Then you could investigate what to do next.

Jim

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:04:43 +0000, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:

Don't forget /proc/cpuinfo