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SYSINFO(8) System Manager's Manual SYSINFO(8) NAME sysinfo -- simple utility to report a great deal of information regard- ing your (FreeBSD) system. SYNOPSIS sysinfo [-a] [-c] [-d] [-h] [-i] [-v [level]] module ... DESCRIPTION The sysinfo this utility is a shell script, for the purpose of interro- gating you system for information and return the hardware and software configuration of the given host system running FreeBSD. The goal is to provide a system operator with descriptive information about an unknown FreeBSD installation. The following options are available: -a Display complete system information, i.e. run all the available modules. See below. -c Toggle colorful output (useful when using less or redirect- ing the output to a file). -d Toggle debug messages. -h Display usage information. -i Toggle info messages. -v [level] Set the verbose level. Supported values are 0 and 1. The verbose level will be set to 1 if no argument is specified. The default is 0 (no verbose output). module Display the system information related to the specified subsystem type. All of the specified modules will be run. It is possible to use a short form of a module in order to run it. This means that an input of sy will match the system module, however an input of s would result in an er- ror as it matches both storage and system modules. The following modules are currently supported: bios BIOS information. It is required to install the dmidecode(8) tool in order to obtain this infor- mation. It will provide you with information such as BIOS version and release date as well as BIOS vendor. cpu CPU details, such as total number of cores, num- ber of cores per CPU, CPU speed as well as its features, its type, architecuture, etc. mem System memory details. This module provides in- formation related to physical memory and SWAP us- age; lists wired, active, inactive, cached and free memory statistics. misc Miscellaneous information. Currently provides in- formation about system crontab, current time and date and statistics about open files. network Provides a detailed information about network subsystem. It summarizes configuration for each network device in the system and displays fire- wall, routing, resolver and socket information. os Operating system details mostly related to re- lease version, kernel version, scheduler, process statistics, information about running processes and jails. packages Information about installed packages, such as its number, how many of them are outdated and which have known security vulnerabilities (in this case it is required to have the portaudit(1) tool in- stalled on the system. services Information about system services. Lists running and not running services, detects services which are supposed to be running and are not. Lists the listening IP sockets opened by individual services as well as user under which the given service is running as well as the command by which this service was started. storage Details about storage subsystem. Summarizes in- formation about available RAID controllers and hard drives, their size and features. Lists ex- isting and mounted file systems, exported file systems through NFS and prints disk usage and I/O statistics. system System information (hardware related), mainly CD- ROM and graphics card information. In case the dmidecode(8) tool is available, it lists the Man- ufacturer of the given machine and provides some information about base board. user User related information; this include informa- tion about currently logged-in users, members of the wheel group, number of local users and groups. This module also provides some statis- tics about logged-in time about users and lists last login date for each user. The features of sysinfo include: • Automatically gathers various system information related to the hardware and software configuration of the FreeBSD host system. • The tool optionally provides useful hints and references to material containing detailed information about provided re- port. These messages are prefixed by the INFO: string. • The tool is also capable to detect some missing configuration or dangerous settings, in which case it prints a warning pre- fixed by the WARNING: string. • Easy to customize. Making use of several shell scripts and one configuration file it is possible to easily extend al- ready implemnted modules as well as add new ones. Please check the sysinfo.conf(5) manual page for configuration options. RETURN VALUES The sysinfo utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. The following exit values have been defined: 1 No options have been provided on the command line. 2 The specified option or module is not supported. 3 The configuration file has not been found. FILES sysinfo.conf The configuration file for the sysinfo utility. SEE ALSO sysinfo.conf(5) AUTHORS The sysinfo utility and this manual page were written by Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>. and is currently maintained by Chris Hutchinson <bsdforge@codeberg.org>. FreeBSD ports 15.0 May 08, 2025 SYSINFO(8)
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