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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 7, 2018, at 1:23 AM, Warner Losh <<a href="mailto:imp@bsdimp.com" class="">imp@bsdimp.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 11:02 PM Charles Sprickman <<a href="mailto:spork@bway.net" target="_blank" class="">spork@bway.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 6, 2018, at 5:48 PM, Brian Callahan <<a href="mailto:bcallah@devio.us" target="_blank" class="">bcallah@devio.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-2997223589968985547m_46167203527693216Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
  
    
  
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    <div class="m_-2997223589968985547m_46167203527693216moz-cite-prefix">On 10/06/18 17:44, Warner Losh wrote:<br class="">
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            <div dir="ltr" class="">On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 2:26 PM George
              Rosamond <<a href="mailto:george@ceetonetechnology.com" target="_blank" class="">george@ceetonetechnology.com</a>>
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              Warner Losh:<br class="">
              > Greetings,<br class="">
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              > Just thought I'd mentioned that I plugged the dmesgd
              submission site on<br class="">
              > FreeBSD's mailing list, so you might see an up-tick
              in submissions from<br class="">
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              Yes... to echo brian... more is better.<br class="">
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            <div class="">Glad to hear it.</div>
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            <div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">BTW, there's
                a small niggle... FreeBSD just went to a reproducible
                build by default, so there's strings like</font></div>
            <pre style="overflow:auto" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA6  r338698+59ff9aa72cd4(master) amd64</font></pre>
            <div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">now that 
                lack the #xxx in them. This is for someone that's using
                git-svn to build the release (which is why it has both
                the r# and the git hash). So their submission was
                rejected.</font></div>
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            <div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">mine that was
                built with different options looked like:</font></div>
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            <div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">FreeBSD
                12.0-ALPHA2 #40+8d55b8a51f5(freze-newer)-dirty: Wed Aug
                22 15:34:50 MDT 2018<br class="">
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            <div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">the person
                that contacted me was clueful enough to puzzle it  out,
                but I thought I'd pass it along.</font></div>
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            <div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Also, I was
                going to bang together a quick python script that
                automatically submits the dmesg.boot file since the web
                page is kinda klunky if you are doing a bunch of
                servers... Any objections? Anybody beaten me to the
                punch?</font></div>
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    <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">There's a Perl script by
      afresh1@ that does this for OpenBSD; I assume it can be quickly
      made to support any other *BSD.<br class="">
    </font><a class="m_-2997223589968985547m_46167203527693216moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gist.github.com/afresh1/99cdd481184147f0e8c0" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/afresh1/99cdd481184147f0e8c0</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Curl works as a one-liner:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">curl -v -d "nickname=spork" -d "<a href="mailto:email=spork@bway.net" target="_blank" class="">email=spork@bway.net</a>" -d 0 v2" -d "do=addd" --data-urlencode 'dmesg@/var/run/dmesg.boot' <a href="http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi" target="_blank" class="">http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think the third -d should be -d "description=name of machine v2" no?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Warner</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><a href="http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=3851" class="">http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=3851</a></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I just did <a href="http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=3852" class="">http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=3852</a> this way (though it's a legit entry too).</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>All - just curious if anyone else uses dmidecode (sysutils/dmidecode)?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>More specifically, for anyone looking to script dmesg collection, dmidecode pulls some decent info about the make/model of the mainboard (or in some cases, the server as a whole) that would be useful info to have in the “description” field.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>For example, part of the summary on this HP server in my garage:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes<br class="">System Information<br class="">        Manufacturer: HP<br class="">        Product Name: ProLiant ML10 v2<br class="">        Version: Not Specified<br class="">        Serial Number: CN65310J2D<br class="">        UUID: 32353338-3636-4e43-3635-3331304a3244<br class="">        Wake-up Type: Power Switch<br class="">        SKU Number: 835266-P01<br class="">        Family: ProLiant</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’m wondering if there’s any way to grab this info without directing people to download yet another utility (I’m sure someone will grumble about ‘curl’). Of note, the first line of dmidecode’s output:</div><div><br class=""></div><div># dmidecode 3.2<br class="">Scanning /dev/mem for entry point.  <<<—  Hmmm?<br class="">SMBIOS 2.8 present.<br class="">78 structures occupying 2568 bytes.<br class="">Table at 0xF3FCB000.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Charles</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Warner</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Charles</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="">
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