Is there a command that knows about my bios?

[Dave Burns]

In our shop we have some software running on the windows boxes that
'audits' the machine. Most of the information is easily (and freely)
duplicated on a linux box (mostly by looking in /proc/cpuinfo
/proc/meminfo, /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, even  /etc/X11/xorg.conf|), but
I haven't found anything about bios. Anyone have a clue for me, how to
find out?

The windows program outputs stuff like this about bios:

Dell Inc. A06 SMBIOS 2.4 Date: 4/3/2008

As I was about to send this off I found smbios-sys-info, which fits
the bill. And it throws in info about the make and model of the PC for
good measure!

I guess I'll send this out anyhow, in case it helps someone else
googling howto detect bios info on linux or how to see bios info with
linux.

mahalo,
Dave


metadata PC make and model bios smbios linux fedora centos ezaudit audit

[Frank Murphy]

On 02/08/09 11:19, Dave Burns wrote:
>  
yum install lshw (lshw-gui)

[David Burns]

Both lshw and dmidecode do the job, and they have man pages, which
smbios-utils does not. Maybe for some other purpose smbios-utils would
be better (reporting is just one of many), but not in my case.

Thanks to Waleed Harbi and Frank Murphy!

Dave

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Waleed Harbi<waleed.harbi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>  dmidecode
>
>  Best Regards,
>  Waleed Harbi
>  Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
>
>
>
>  On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> > On 02/08/09 11:19, Dave Burns wrote:
> > >
> > yum install lshw (lshw-gui)
> >
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On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 02/08/09 11:19, Dave Burns wrote:
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