On 2004-12-21 @ 18:30:35 (week 52) Bob Alexander wrote: > Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file backups. > > Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that > would build a file with useful information. Here it is: > > lsmod > lspci > dpkg --get-selections > sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda > df > uname -a > > Now the questions: > > 1) Other useful commands I am not thinking about ? > 2) I would like to redirect the output to a file called with the > catenation of 'uname -n'.'uname -r'.config.YYYYMMDDHHMM.txt where > YYYYMMDDHHMM is a timestamp of the command execution time. How do I > obtain such value ? How do I create the required backticks on my laptop > keyboard (no separate numpad) > 3) If I use cron to run this everyday, being this a laptop client, will > the due command be executed if it's natural time has expired ? > 4) What is the easiest way to keep the last N versions of such files ?
Search Google for a script called system-info by Karsten M. Self. He posted it a long time ago, but it still is very useful. Start from there and add the things you want to have that are not already done by it. Grx hdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
