inxi --recommends inxi will now begin checking for the programs it needs to operate. First a check of the main languages and tools inxi uses. Python is only for debugging data collection. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bash version: 4.1.5(2)-release Gawk version: 3.1.7 Sed version: 4.2.1 Sudo version: 1.7.4p6 Python version: 2.6.5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test One: Required System Directories. If one of these system directories is missing, inxi cannot operate:
All the required directories are present. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Two: Required Core Applications. If one of these applications is missing, inxi cannot operate:
All the required applications are present. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Three: Script Recommends for Graphics Features. If you do not use X these do not matter. If one of these applications is missing, inxi will have incomplete output:
Recommended X application: glxinfo (info: -G glx info)...................... /usr/bin/glxinfo Recommended X application: xdpyinfo (info: -G multi screen resolution)...... /usr/bin/xdpyinfo Recommended X application: xprop (info: -S desktop data).................... /usr/bin/xprop Recommended X application: xrandr (info: -G single screen resolution)....... /usr/bin/xrandr
All the recommended applications are present. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Four: Script Recommends for Remaining Features. If one of these applications is missing, inxi will have incomplete output:
All the recommended applications are present. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Five: System Directories for Various Information. If one of these directories is missing, inxi will have incomplete output:
System directory: /sys/class/dmi/id (info: -M system, motherboard, bios).... Present System directory: /dev (info: -l,-u,-o,-p,-P,-D disk partition data)........ Present System directory: /dev/disk/by-label (info: -l,-o,-p,-P partition labels)... Present System directory: /dev/disk/by-uuid (info: -u,-o,-p,-P partition uuid)...... Present
All the system directories are present. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All tests completed.
I realized that even though this is simple - my rambling above may look complicated, so here is a video of the implementation of inxi in Mandriva 2011 (Arch has it in the repos)
Oh yes this thing has endless combinations Try inxi -u and the the combination inxi -uo or inxi -Fuo for that matter. Or inxi -t m10 or inxi -t cm15 or.... I am tickled pink over this one! That man page is great. This should be a standard in every distro - that would really make the supporting process easier.
Yes, I found that page from your first posts and have played with inxi a bit. I like it. Sometimes, I will use dmidecode, which has a man page, and inxi seems like a very good complement, easier to use and prettier, in some cases.
Re: inxi system info made easy
Posted: 09 Jun 2012, 17:23
by viking60
Hmm now I must try dmidecode..... Looks a lot like lshw at first glance... Oh yes there is a lot of useful info there too. I am playing with dmidecode --type 1 etc now. But I think inxi is easier with a better overview.
Re: inxi system info made easy
Posted: 25 Jun 2012, 13:12
by viking60
Did I mention that inxi works perfectly fine in xchat? Or gnome-xchat as it is called in Mandriva? Get in there and if you need to provide info just prepend the command with:
It works nicely! And puts your hw info directly into the chat client. This can be done with any other command too as far as I can see. So it would also output
directly in the chat client. I didn't know that.... The inxi info is very well suited for that kind of output though. I have not figured out how to do it in Chatzilla yet - does anybody know how to execute commands in chatzilla?
Re: inxi system info made easy
Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 18:14
by rolf
Someone's sig that stuck with me:
idon'tcu
In other news, I like inxi and try to find parallel better functionality wrt other programs, such as fdisk -l.
For example, inxi -xxD gives the serial number of the hard drive, important to me, atm, as I'm switching out a couple 500G drives with a 1.0T and 1.5T, so need to identify who's what when I look in the case, to be able to pull/replace the right ones. BTW, if hddtemp is installed and inxi is run as root, it displays temps.
I believe you have to give a file an extension, in order for it to know how to display, and with what, and what type of character encoding it would be. I always tend to use .txt. .html is a heavier file than .txt is, and I prefer lightweight, yet informational, files.
I have been playing with dmidecode today. I have a mem stick that's not working on the server, and had to see which bank it was, so I'd know which to pull and replace. Ugh.
