On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:48:32 -0500
David Curry <dsccable@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Michael Scottaline wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:03:38 -0500
> >David Curry <dsccable@xxxxxxxxxxx> insightfully noted:
> >
> ><snippage>
> >DC>My system (FC-2) doesn't seem to recognize "dmidecode" as a command.
> ><further snippage>
> >=================================
> >It will if you run it as root (or sudo) from /usr/sbin/dmidecode
> >HTH,
> >Mike
> >
> >
> Thanks, Mike. I tried exactly what you suggest. The result was a
> system response advising that dmidecode was not a bash command.
>
> Paul Howarth may have provided the answer to my riddle in noting that
> dmidecode is an FC-3 kernel facility. I am using FC-2.
>
<SNIP>
dmidecode is part of kernel-utils, try "yum install kernel-utils" and it's
been around since at least 7.3.
Dave
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