System information script: sysinfo.sh

[Telengard]

I have created my own quick and dirty system information script. It just calls a few simple commands to output some vital system status information. It would be great to read what you all think of it. Please do add your comments and criticisms!

The script:

echo -e \\t System time:
date

echo -e \\n\\t System uptime:
uptime

echo -e \\n\\t Linux version:
uname -a

echo -e \\n\\t KDE version:
kde-config -v

echo -e \\n\\t Ubuntu version:
lsb_release -a

echo -e \\n\\t Free memory in MB:
free -mlt

echo -e \\n\\t Mounted disk volumes:
mount | grep '^/dev/[hs][cd][a-z]' | sort

echo -e \\n\\t Disk free space:
df -hlTx tmpfs

echo -e \\n\\t Active network adapters:
ifconfig | grep 'inet addr\|encap'

Example output:

     System time:
Wed Nov 25 14:45:01 EST 2009

     System uptime:
 14:45:01 up 5 days, 11:10, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.25, 0.20

     Linux version:
Linux Alia 2.6.24-25-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 20 07:31:10 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

     KDE version:
Qt: 3.3.8b
KDE: 3.5.10
kde-config: 1.0

     Ubuntu version:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:  Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS
Release:    8.04
Codename:    hardy

     Free memory in MB:
       total    used    free   shared  buffers   cached
Mem:     1009    982     27     0     8    499
Low:      883    855     27
High:     126    126     0
-/+ buffers/cache:    474    534
Swap:     1906     40    1866
Total:    2915    1022    1893

     Mounted disk volumes:
/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)

     Disk free space:
Filesystem  Type  Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3   ext3  364G 149G 197G 44% /

     Active network adapters:
eth0   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:76:52:1b:fb
     inet addr:192.168.11.2 Bcast:192.168.11.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
lo    Link encap:Local Loopback
     inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

[arochester]

Re: System information script: sysinfo.sh

You can get a lot of information using the fairly short command:

sudo lshw -html > your-file-name.html

It writes an html file which you can then view with Firefox.

See "Find Hardware Specs (Details) on your Computer" on http://embraceubuntu.com/2007/02/18/...your-computer/

[luispt]

Re: System information script: sysinfo.sh

This made me remember of a past desire of building a custom kernel only with the drivers being used for my laptop.

How could we use the lshw driver information to build a script to select only the used drivers/modules in the .config file of the Kernel (I want to discard everything else).

Regards.

[Telengard]

Re: System information script: sysinfo.sh

How could we use the lshw driver information to build a script to select only the used drivers/modules in the .config file of the Kernel (I want to discard everything else).

I don't know, but you may start your research with the KernelCompile article in Community Ubuntu Documentation.