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Small modification to hobbitclient-linux.sh

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list Frédéric Mangeant · Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:47:30 +0200 · 
Hi Henrik

hobbitclient-linux.sh uses "uname -a" to report information about the OS, which gives something like this :

Linux hades 2.6.14.2 #2 Wed Nov 16 10:14:26 CET 2005 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) GNU/Linux

IMHO it would be great to display less information about the running kernel and add information about the Linux distribution, something like that :

Linux 2.6.14.2 i686 - Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
Linux 2.6.9-34.EL i686 - CentOS release 4.3 (Final)
Linux 2.4.20-28.7 i686  - Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
Linux 2.4.26-vs1.28 i686 - Debian 3.1
Linux 2.4.18-64GB-SMP i686 - SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386)

If you like this idea, I've tested the attached "patch" (on top of latest snapshot) with RedHat / CentOS, Gentoo, Debian and SuSE.

Regards,

-- 

Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis
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list Henrik Størner · Sat, 3 Jun 2006 12:50:31 +0200 ·
▸ quoted from Frédéric Mangeant
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:47:30PM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

hobbitclient-linux.sh uses "uname -a" to report information about the OS, which gives something like this :

Linux hades 2.6.14.2 #2 Wed Nov 16 10:14:26 CET 2005 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) GNU/Linux

IMHO it would be great to display less information about the running kernel and add information about the Linux distribution, something like that :

Linux 2.6.14.2 i686 - Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
Linux 2.6.9-34.EL i686 - CentOS release 4.3 (Final)
I've taken your patch and modified it somewhat, so that the distribution
specific information is reported in a separate [osversion] section of
the client data. Then I made the "info" column webpage use this, so in
the "OS: " display you'll now see

OS:	Ubuntu 6.06
        Linux osiris.hswn.dk 2.6.15-23-k7 i686


Regards,
Henrik
list Allan Spencer · Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:32:23 +1000 ·
▸ quoted from Henrik Størner
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:47:30PM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

  
hobbitclient-linux.sh uses "uname -a" to report information about the OS, which gives something like this :

Linux hades 2.6.14.2 #2 Wed Nov 16 10:14:26 CET 2005 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) GNU/Linux

IMHO it would be great to display less information about the running kernel and add information about the Linux distribution, something like that :

Linux 2.6.14.2 i686 - Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
Linux 2.6.9-34.EL i686 - CentOS release 4.3 (Final)
    
I've taken your patch and modified it somewhat, so that the distribution
specific information is reported in a separate [osversion] section of
the client data. Then I made the "info" column webpage use this, so in
the "OS: " display you'll now see

OS:	Ubuntu 6.06
        Linux osiris.hswn.dk 2.6.15-23-k7 i686


Regards,
Henrik


Another very nice addition that will come in handy, but as an extension could the 'flavour' be added in there also ? Eg I know you can do cat /etc/redhat-release on redhat but no idea what the equivalent command is on other nix*

Allan
list Rdeal · Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:14:56 -0400 · 
This and more are available in the cpu2.sh script on deadcat.
▸ quoted from Allan Spencer


From: ZanDAhaR <user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:32:23 +1000
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Small modification to hobbitclient-linux.sh

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
 On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:47:30PM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

   
 hobbitclient-linux.sh uses "uname -a" to report information about the
OS, which gives something like this :

Linux hades 2.6.14.2 #2 Wed Nov 16 10:14:26 CET 2005 i686 Pentium III
(Katmai) GNU/Linux

IMHO it would be great to display less information about the running
kernel and add information about the Linux distribution, something like
that :

Linux 2.6.14.2 i686 - Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
Linux 2.6.9-34.EL i686 - CentOS release 4.3 (Final)
     
 
I've taken your patch and modified it somewhat, so that the distribution
specific information is reported in a separate [osversion] section of
the client data. Then I made the "info" column webpage use this, so in
the "OS: " display you'll now see

OS: Ubuntu 6.06
        Linux osiris.hswn.dk 2.6.15-23-k7 i686


Regards,
Henrik


Another very nice addition that will come in handy, but as an extension
could the 'flavour' be added in there also ? Eg I know you can do cat
/etc/redhat-release on redhat but no idea what the equivalent command is on
other nix*

Allan
list Allan Spencer · Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:38:13 +1000 ·
▸ quoted from Rdeal
rdeal wrote:
This and more are available in the cpu2.sh script on deadcat.

*From: *ZanDAhaR <user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid>
*Reply-To: *<user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
*Date: *Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:32:23 +1000
*To: *<user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
*Subject: *Re: [hobbit] Small modification to hobbitclient-linux.sh

Henrik Stoerner wrote:


    On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:47:30PM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

      
        hobbitclient-linux.sh uses "uname -a" to report information
        about the
        OS, which gives something like this :

        Linux hades 2.6.14.2 #2 Wed Nov 16 10:14:26 CET 2005 i686
        Pentium III
        (Katmai) GNU/Linux

        IMHO it would be great to display less information about the
        running
        kernel and add information about the Linux distribution,
        something like
        that :

        Linux 2.6.14.2 i686 - Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
        Linux 2.6.9-34.EL i686 - CentOS release 4.3 (Final)
            
         
    I've taken your patch and modified it somewhat, so that the
    distribution
    specific information is reported in a separate [osversion] section of
    the client data. Then I made the "info" column webpage use this, so in
    the "OS: " display you'll now see

    OS: Ubuntu 6.06
            Linux osiris.hswn.dk 2.6.15-23-k7 i686


    Regards,
    Henrik


Another very nice addition that will come in handy, but as an 
extension could the 'flavour' be added in there also ? Eg I know you 
can do cat /etc/redhat-release on redhat but no idea what the 
equivalent command is on other nix*

Allan

Ahh forgot all about that thing!! Shows how long I've been avoiding bb 
stuff and trying to rely solely on hobbit :)

A
list Frédéric Mangeant · Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:31:39 +0200 ·
▸ quoted from Allan Spencer
Henrik Stoerner a écrit :
I've taken your patch and modified it somewhat, so that the distribution
specific information is reported in a separate [osversion] section of
the client data. Then I made the "info" column webpage use this, so in
the "OS: " display you'll now see

OS:	Ubuntu 6.06
        Linux osiris.hswn.dk 2.6.15-23-k7 i686
  
Thanks, your "OS" display is more readable.

Here are some more distribution specific files :
- Slackware : /etc/slackware-version
- Mandriva : /etc/mandrake-release
- Fedora : /etc/fedora-release
- Arch Linux : /etc/arch-release

I don't have these at work, so I don't know the exact format of these files.

Regards,

-- 

Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis