Questions tagged [system-information]
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Making a "About PC" boot opion in GRUB 2
How could i make a boot option "About PC" in the GRUB boot menu that displays something like in the image running the newest version of GRUB i386-pc MBR everything uptodate.
Image slightly ...
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Zsh do utilities distinction
How do Zsh distinguish utility/file if it's executable either binary or script, or just file, or shell builtin, etc, etc ?
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get connected monitor(s) details on a Debian system
I am running Debian 11 with GNOME, and realized that getting information about the connected monitor(s) is not that easy (preferably from terminal).
The most promising solution I found was with read-...
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Is there a way to clearly define hardware controller?
Background
There's a task to automate info grabbing from servers. However, I am unable to locate any hardware or software RAID controllers.
Issue
Due to the various ways each vendor describes its ...
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Windows Command Prompts 'systeminfo' command equivalent on Ubuntu
With Windows' command prompt, I can get a simplified system hardware overview through systeminfo command. On Ubuntu I can get a lot of non GUI commands with lots of info plus verbose details. There ...
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Get the hardware model name in linux
I am writing an application that works like Neofetch when a -w option is passed. It shows some of the the system information like memory, swap, cpu, battery usages, hostname, local ip, kernel version ...
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How to find hardware/chipset name using terminal in Linux
How can I reliably determine the chipset of a machine?
I tried to use the lspci, hwinfo, lshw and dmidecode commands
on my old Asus K50IJ with Linux Mint,
but the output does not provide precise ...
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How to change OEM vendor info?
Running:
cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/{sys_vendor,chassis_vendor,product_name} produces the output:
To Be Filled By O.E.M.
To Be Filled By O.E.M.
To Be Filled By O.E.M.
How would I change these ...
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Format the output of commands
I am currently trying to use Plink to run a few commands on a linux server to monitor a couple of things on it such as the disk space, memory, cpu usage.
I have the commands that I want to use but I ...
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How do I find out the build version to download with LEDE?
Following on the footsteps of this question, which I was able to figure out with the device page for my device. I want to know if it is possible to find out he build information without using the web ...
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What is the command to list specific hardware components? [duplicate]
I'm wondering what command I can use to see all the hardware in any PC, or at least some of it (for example, model of the motherboard).
I'm pretty new on Linux, I'm using a lightweight version to boot ...
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Unique Deliminator when semicolon replaced with comma in CSV files of Unix environments?
Azure Machine Learning insists me to use comma as deliminator in CSV files, instead of semicolon. This breaks a lot of things in *ix computers where we use semicolon and cell values have a lot of ...
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Is there information such as Operation Mode (Booting Mode) in the device tree?
Good morning.
I am studying Device Tree of Kernel.
I use an ARM board.
According to the information of Operation Mode(Booting Mode) Register, the device medium used for booting the ARM board is set ...
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How to fingerprint a Unix System [closed]
I would like to fingerprint some Unix (most are Debian) systems. By fingerprinting I mean run a script that collect material identifiers, system version, etc in order to be able to:
accurately ...
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Is there a tool to find out the general state of the machine? [closed]
I am longing for a tool for linux that would give me a general idea what is happening on a machine. Example information I am looking for:
What daemons are installed (www, db, others)
Config locations ...
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How to query (from the command line) high-level desktop-environment information for system characterization
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When asking for help with a software problem, it is usually good to identify not only what versions of that particular code one is running, but also characterize the application's platform....
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Is it possible to change the serial number of a VM in VMware Fusion?
I need to change the system Serial Number
it's shown in the output of
dmidecode -t system
Please note that I'm running RedHat in a virtual machine in VMware Fusion
Is it possible to do it?
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How to find out names and numbers of users on your system?
One way to find the names is to look at /home/ and see whichever entries are on the system.
To look at current users one can use
#users
to see how many users are there.
If a single user has ...
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How to find system language within Python?
Is there any way, in Python 3, to find out the language used by the system?
Even a tricky one though, like: reading from a file in a sneaky directory, and finding the string 'ENG' or 'FRE' within the ...
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Wrong operating system gets displayed online
When I visit a page like https://www.whatismyip.com it displays
the following:
Browser Info
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0
I am using Linux Mint 17.1 ...
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How to use the 'date' command to display week number of the year?
I want the UNIX date to output:
So this is week 35 of 2016.
Here, of course, 35 and 2016 are outputs of the date command. I have tried the following:
date +%U
This printed out the current week ...
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How to get hard disk information on linux terminal? [duplicate]
We can get CPU information using lscpu command, is there any command to get hard disk information on Linux terminal, in a similar way?
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How can I test a used computer for problems?
Are there any commands that I can use on a secondhand laptop or PC running Linux that will tell me if there are any problems with the system? If so, what are they?
For example, battery life/condition,...
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Is there a tool for generating historical process oriented resource usage statistics like top output?
I've seen many tools like collectd, systats etc for recording general usage statistics, but I would like to find a tool for generating a historical graph of system resource consumption of the top 10 ...
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How to put the percentage of use of each core from cpu
I use the Zabbix Server to monitor my environment.
The metrics used by Zabbix to view the CPU are too confusing, so I would like to simplify.
Is there a way to get the percentage of use of each core ...
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Cron task scheduling and stopping after certain interval [closed]
I am managing a server which has multiple cron tasks, one of the crontab entry is like below:
51 */2 * * * /root/backup.sh
can anyone explain me what is happening here, at what time the script is ...
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Is there a way to get a top of something that happened at a particular time
Is there a way for someone to take a look at system activity, like load averages and system processes that happened at an earlier time of the day? I mean is there a command for that? Say for example, ...
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Is there any way to know if the system is downloading/uploading something in Fedora 22?
I've been experiencing Internet connection issues and I'm pretty sure it's not Fedora but I want to know if there is any way I can know whether the system/any-other-application is uploading/...
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How do I check the running kernel version?
While troubleshooting a problem with my ethernet card, I've found that the driver I'm currently using may have some issues with old kernel versions. What command can I use to check the kernel version ...
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Matching btrfs documentation for the version I have?
I want to see if the formatting details I specified are doing what I thought, and generally inspect things after a huge amount of copying to the btrfs file system. Looking through docs, I see btrfs ...
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Resolving the location/registration of an executable in the system?
I am on Ubuntu 11.04, Gnome 2. I had at a certain point installed Adobe Reader (acroread), however "off-tree" (at a non-standard location) - and I just noticed something weird about this executable.
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How to find out what information is used to generate hardware code
I have a commercial software product (Siemens WinCC), which generates a hardware code on the machine where it is running. I can use this code to request a license for my software installation.
The ...
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Difference between 'sar' and 'iostat' commands
With sar and iowait, we can get CPU time utilization. But, when I executed both commands, I could see significant differences in their outputs.
> iostat && sar 1 1
Linux 2.6.32-042stab090....
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How can I tell if floating point arithmetic is performed in hardware or software?
How can I tell if floating point arithmetic is performed in hardware or software?
I could find the processor's name and Google it, but is there a way to do it in a BASH script? For instance, is ...
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How to determine if and which linux security module (LSM) is available?
Is there a way to find out if and in case which linux security LSM (apparmor, selinux, grsecurity) is used by the kernel?
To be more specific let's assume I am a legimate root user of the machine?
If ...
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is there a Webview for debian to see what software, packages, etc. are installed? [closed]
I am searching for a webview where I have some overview over my system on my debian server.
Is there something out there?
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How can I find the hardware model in Linux?
I used a system information utility to take the model number of a system, and also of the motherboard.
DMI System Manufacturer LENOVO
DMI System Product 2306CTO
DMI System Version ...
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Human readable system memory reading from CLI?
On OS X, I get a nice human readable system memory reading like so:
printf -v system_memory \
"$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType \
| awk -F ': ' '/^ +Memory: /{print $2}')"
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Hardware and software inventorying
Objective
Collect hardware and software information from lab computers, respecting students' privacy.
Type of information to collect
Examples:
System memory
Bash verion
JVM version
Operating ...
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How to find information about devices in Linux [duplicate]
I want to find the following information for devices in Linux:
Bus speed (e.g. 66 MHz)
IRQ settings
Vendor identification
AGP rate (e.g. 1x, 2x, 4x)
MAC address
I am only able find the last one by ...
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Overclocking tools in Linux
I am trying to overclock my machine. All the changes are made on the BIOS level, but then one needs to check all the temperatures, voltages, etc and test the stability of the overclock. Most tutorials ...
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Understanding system load
I was looking at the system load of my shared hosting account.
$ uptime
09:14:37 up 21 days, 5:38, 4 users, load average: 3.85, 4.96, 5.21
I'm not worried by the first and second values, they ...
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How do I find out if my computer has PAE using Linux? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do the flags in /proc/cpuinfo mean?
I tried installing CentOS 6.3 on my computer only to see a complaint that my computer doesn't have PAE. I am not sure if my computer ...
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Computer speed in flops
Nowdays, The speed of supercomputers are measured in Flops. Is there any linux command or tool that can calculate or gives the speed of a processor in Flops. If not, than how do we measure it.
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system monitoring tools
What command line utilities come standard with sunos to do system monitoring?
I've been able to find prstat, but I would like something that will tell me memory usage and IOWAIT as well.
It looks ...
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Is there a command or method (other than RTFM) to determine if a system has a UEFI BIOS?
My inspiration for asking this is this other question on Ask Ubuntu.
One reason I am asking is that I am just curious. I would like to know more about this for whatever value it might have in the ...
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Understanding output of ps -ef on linux
When I do ps -ef on my Linux box, I get:
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
Please help me with meaning of C,TIME.
is the TIME , the actual cpu time allocated to the process?
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lshw and lscpu disagree on caches - which is right?
I am trying to find out specifics about caches (in particular which caches are shared between cores and which are not) and have stumpled onto a inconsistency.
sudo lshw says
*-cache:0
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Generate a key (number?) based on part of the machine's hardware components
I'm wondering what is the best way to manually generate a hardware key based on certain components of the machine.
Here's the thing: I want only certain type of machines to be able to communicate ...
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How to get dmidecode information without root privileges?
I'm writing a program that displays various system information (on a CentOS system). For example, the processor type and speed (from /proc/cpuinfo), the last boot time (calculated from /proc/uptime), ...
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