System Information Command?

Pete Dogg · 05-06-2003, 10:04 AM

Hi,

I'm new to linux, I'm trying to find a command to get some system information for linux. like the version number and distribution etc.

I tried sysinfo but that didn't work.

Can someone help me out.

Thanks,
Pete

trickykid · 05-06-2003, 10:37 AM

uname -a

Will usually display the distro, version, kernel and such.

man uname for more information and or options.

Some other useful commands:

cat /proc/cpuinfo = for cpu information
cat /proc/interrupts = interrupts information
cat /proc/pci = pci information

Basically you can cat most of the files in the /proc directory to view any information regarding your system. Take a peek on some other files you may have there, they are pretty self explanatory.

AltF4 · 05-06-2003, 10:38 AM

kernel info:
uname -a
cat /proc/version

CPU info:
cat /proc/cpuinfo

MEM info:
cat /proc/meminfo

Disk info:
df

User info:
whoami

SuSE version info:
cat /etc/SuSE-release

more info:
siga (if you have siga installed)

Pete Dogg · 05-06-2003, 10:58 AM

Thanks guys, this helped but when I tried telnet to my server box and running the cat /proc/version command, it did not return the distribution. it just said (release) where as on my local box it says (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)

is there another way to get at the distribution information?

acid_kewpie · 05-06-2003, 10:59 AM

erm, you were already told (twice) to run "uname -a"

Pete Dogg · 05-06-2003, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie
erm, you were already told (twice) to run "uname -a"

I tried that I get
Linux carlton 2.4.17 then the date
there is no info on the distro.

david_ross · 05-06-2003, 01:18 PM

Try using "sysreport". It works great on RedHat - in a way it give you too much info but it is good for creating an archive about the system specs for sending them to another computer for analysis.

Pete Dogg · 05-06-2003, 01:27 PM

I tried sysreport it says no command found.

david_ross · 05-06-2003, 01:29 PM

What distro are you using? I have only ever used it on RedHat. Even so you will need to be logged in under a root shell.

Pete Dogg · 05-06-2003, 02:34 PM

At home I'm using Mandrake 9.0
I have a website on a server and I don't know the distro, I guess I can email my hosting provider, but I was just looking for a command that would tell me.
Thanks for help guys. The kernel info provided was also helpful.

trickykid · 05-06-2003, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pete Dogg
At home I'm using Mandrake 9.0
I have a website on a server and I don't know the distro, I guess I can email my hosting provider, but I was just looking for a command that would tell me.
Thanks for help guys. The kernel info provided was also helpful.

Well you might not have access to it since its your host provider but you may want to look for a version file in /etc or maybe you can view the issue file, which will sometimes tell you the distro version as well.

david_ross · 05-06-2003, 02:59 PM

I gan get the Mandrake version (as AltF4 said before) using:
cat /proc/version

If it is a webserver you can sometimes get interesting info from a HEAD request. Here is mine:

Code:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 19:24:57 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 341
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Pete Dogg · 05-06-2003, 07:18 PM

Ok I tried the cat /etc/issue on my local box, it worked but just "Welcome" was on the server's file.
I couldn't find the /etc/version file on either box.

I tried the HEAD request. Mandrake was shown on my local box, but no distro info was shown on the server box.

Must be just this one server, I tried another box on their network and it showed RedHat, so chances are that's what's used on my server box.

AltF4 · 05-07-2003, 04:34 PM

if you can't find out what distribution you might want to:

- check the /etc directory ffor files like /etc/SuSE-version, /etc/versiont, etc
- brose some files in /etc for messages/copyright strings/etc from distro vendor
- ask de person who installed linux :-)

Pete Dogg · 05-08-2003, 03:04 AM

AltF4

Thanks you did it.
I searched and there was a file /etc/slackware-version
which contained 8.0.0