Hi,

I am looking for a C/C++ code to get the Linux Version number and the hardwares list in the system like drive size, RAM size etc.

Also, Is is possible to get the OS version and hardwares list using same code on any linux flavour?? For e.g. Fedora, ubuntu, Debian etc?

Can anyone suggest some code for this.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Arun

You can use the 'hwinfo' program, or 'uname', or 'lspci -vvv', 'lsusb', 'dmidecode', 'hardinfo', 'hwdata', OR you can use

'cat /proc/interrupts, iomem, ioports, irq, slabinfo, kallsyms, stat, swaps, keys, key-users, sysrq-trigger, kmsg, latency_stats, cpuinfo, meminfo, vmstat, diskstats, mounts, dma, mpt, mtrr, etc ...

You may or may not have all of these, or might have some different ones. Only one /proc/<name> at a time.

Hi AwesomeMachine,

Thanks! I really appreciate your answer with a number of Linux commands in it to try. I haven't tried them all but I assume I will get the results I want, from these.
But, as I wrote I want some solution which I could code, so should I assume to execute the required commands in C/C++ code using system() or execl()??
Will this solution work for all Linux flavors or on the widely used flavors altleast like RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, OpenSuse etc. I want to deploy an app that will send the system details about of the end-user system, their web activities, hardwares list, installed and currently running applications. The app will send the details to a server which provides the admins the usage behaviors in the network.

Any more pointers will really help.

Thumbs up!
Arun

If you're doing a homework problem, I can see why you would want to code in C/C++, but shell scripting is how these commands would automated, customized. You can parse the output to a gui using grep, and sed.

The requirement is to code in C/C++ itself. So, I wont be able to use shell scripting directly. And this app is not a GUI app but an application that will run in background as a daemon. So, I need to write in C/C++ itself.
So, should I write a shell script and call it using C program or should I call the commands using code itself and then parse the output programmatically?

The requirement is to write the app in C/C++ itself. So I cannot use shell scripting directly. Also this is not a GUI app, instead its a client program that will run in background like daemon. So, should I write a shell script and the call it in C code or should I call the required commands programmatically? any suggestions.

sorry for reposting the reply, Network Blues :-(

Just take a look at the source code of say:
http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter

I saw the app and it should help me with my work. Thanks
Now I can move onto my other query, how can I get all the application activity on user computers including app name, time of day, duration, version, etc. I need to know which applications are running currently in user's computers.

Any help, code snippet.

Thanks a lot.
Arun