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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : Richard Russell <richard@yellowgoanna.com>
  Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:27:15 +0930

Re: Finding out specs of remote FreeBSD machine

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 04:58:45PM +0930, Richard Russell wrote:

> How would one go about finding out physical characteristics of a machine
> remotely? For eg, I'd like to know what CPU a machine is running, what
> HDD Model, what other devices are attached, and so on. In linux, I'd use
> /proc... What do I use on FreeBSD...

dmesg(8) is a good start. That'll report the CPU type, MHz, hard drive
information and other goo that you might be interested in.

> Also, is there some way of finding out when a machine was first set up?
> I used a find command to try to find the oldest file, but it appears to
> be 1996 or so, and I'm surprised it's _that_ old... This was a file in
> /usr/src somewhere. I suspect it's more likely to be the creation time
> from the CVS repository... Is there any sensible way to find out this
> information?

I think John Edwards' suggestion of the dates of directories in / is
going to yield the most fruit. I've never had to find out that kind
of thing before.

   - andrew

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