SYSINFO 1.1
Michael A. Cooper
Research, Development, and Systems Group
University Computing Services
University of Southern California
mcooper@usc.edu
CHANGES
See the file CHANGELOG for a complete list of changes.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Sysinfo is a program which shows various pieces of information about a
system. 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 on system devices
such as disk drives, frame buffers, tape drives, and many others. 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.
SUPPORTTED PLATFORMS
Sysinfo has been tested on the platforms listed below. Porting to
other BSD based Unix's is fairly straight-forward.
Sun-3 SunOS 4.0.3, 4.1.1
Sun-386 SunOS 4.0.1
Sun-4 SunOS 4.0.3, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3
SPARCbook-1 Solaris 1.0.1 SPARCbook Version A.3, B
Solbourne Series5E OS/MP 4.1A
DEC MIPS Ultrix 4.1, 4.2
NeXT NeXT 2.2
IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2
Alliant *Concentrix 5.X, *Concentrix-2800 2.0
* - No device information support
INSTALLATION
1) Select one of the supplied Makefile's and copy it to "Makefile".
Pre-customized Makefile's are named Makefile.<os>.
2) Run "make". If you have multiple kernel architectures (kvm's) for
the same OS (like for SunOS), you must compile and install sysinfo
for each kernel arch.
3) Run "make install" to install the sysinfo binary and "make
install.man" to install the man page.
BUG FIXES
Please send bug fixes, suggestions, and comments to mcooper@usc.edu.
WHERE TO GET IT
The latest/greatest version of sysinfo is available via anonymous ftp
on usc.edu in /pub/sysinfo.
PLATFORM SPECIFIC NOTES
The following are notes regarding specific platforms:
SunOS Sysinfo should be compiled for each kernel architecture machine
you wish to run it on. It is normally installed into /usr/kvm
and symlinked into something like /usr/local/bin.
Your kernel must have NIT (Network Interface Tap) compiled into it
in order to determine the Ethernet MAC address.
Sun386i device support is shakey, at best. No SCSI disk info
is found. The kernel device init table doesn't seem to have
any of the disk info in it. I haven't had time to track this
down.
Ultrix Your kernel must have the PF (Packet Filter) compiled into it
in order to determine the Ethernet MAC address.
NeXT Network address info for network interfaces is not working. There
is currently no debugger that works with GCC 2.0 so I haven't spent
time on this.
AIX When looking up device information, sysinfo uses the AIX "National
Language Catalogs". This means that your $LANG environment
variable must be set correctly. If it is not, sysinfo may fail
to find most device information.
OTHER KNOWN PROBLEMS
SPARCbook "id" DISKS
The label on "id" disks on the SPARCbook-1 cannot be read. This
appears to be because the definition of IDE_READ in
<taddev/ide_drvr_def.h> is incorrect. This bug is present in
Solaris 1.0.1 Rev A.
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