File: sys_uname.html

Description

A Ruby interface for getting system information along the lines of the uname Unix command (but also works on MS Windows).

Synopsis

   
   require 'sys/uname'
   include Sys

   puts Uname.nodename
   puts Uname.version
   puts Uname.sysname
   puts Uname.machine
   puts Uname.release

   p Uname.uname

Constants

VERSION

The current version number of sys-uname.

Class Methods

Uname.sysname

Returns the operating system name. e.g. "SunOS"

Uname.nodename

Returns the nodename. This is usually, but not necessarily, the same as the system's hostname. You cannot currently set the nodename (root or otherwise). This may be added in a future release.

Uname.machine

Returns the machine hardware type. e.g. "i686"

Uname.version

Returns the operating system version. e.g. "5.8". In the case of MS Windows, it returns the version plus patch information, separated by a hyphen, e.g. "2915-Service Pack 2".

Uname.release

Returns the operating system release. e.g. "2.2.16-3"

Uname.uname

Returns a struct of type UnameStruct that contains sysname, nodename, machine, version, and release. On Solaris, it will also include architecture and platform. On HP-UX, it will also include id_number.
MS Windows - there are many more, and different, fields in the struct. Please see the MSDN documenation for a complete explanation of what each of these members mean.

Solaris Only

Uname.architecture

Returns the instruction set architecture. e.g. "sparc"

Uname.platform

Returns the platform identifier. e.g. "SUNW,Sun-Blade-100"

Uname.isa_list

Returns a space separated string containing a list of all variant instruction set architectures executable on the current system.
They are listed in order of performance, from best to worst.

Uname.hw_provider

Returns the name of the hardware manufacturer.

Uname.hw_serial_number

Returns the ASCII reblockquotesentation of the hardware-specific serial number of the machine that executes the function.

Uname.srpc_domain

Returns the name of the Secure Remote Procedure Call domain, if any.

Uname.dhcp_cache

Returns a hexidecimal encoding, in String form, of the name of the interface configured by boot(1M) followed by the DHCPACK reply from the server.

BSD Platforms Only (including OS X)

Uname.model

Returns the model type, e.g. "PowerBook5,1"

HP-UX Only

Uname.id_number

Returns the id number, e.g. 234233587. This is a String, not a Fixnum.

Notes

Not all of the information that you might be used to seeing with a 'uname -a' is available. This may be added in future releases, but since different implementations provide different information (via different header files) it will be a bit of a pain.
Windows users - please see the MSDN documentation for the Win32_OperatingSystem class for a complete list of what each of the UnameStruct members mean.

Known Bugs

None that I'm aware of. Please log any bugs on the project page at http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/sysutils.

Future Plans

Add additional info for Linux, Solaris, BSD.

License

Ruby's

Copyright

(C) 2002-2007 Daniel J. Berger
All Rights Reserved

Warranty

This package is provided "as is" and without any exblockquotess or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Author

Daniel Berger
djberg96 at nospam at gmail dot com
imperator on IRC (Freenode)

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