General
The Ubuntu Forums "system-info" script queries the users computer and prepares a hardware and system configuration report, so that users & helpers can see details of your system.
Details
Creates the file `system-info.txt` at the base of the user's home directory.
Sanitizes, masks all sensitive info, like IP addresses, MAC addresses, Full FQDN and Serial numbers, automatically in a meaningful way.
The script displays the unmasked report results within the 'less' utility to review the results, one screen at a time. To navigate from there, press the space bar, left, right, up, down, page up or page down keys to navigate. If in a graphical terminal session, you can also use mouse navigation. Press the "q" key to exit "less" and continue. It will print the final report and offer to upload to pastebin site.
Offers to post the results to the Ubuntu `pastebinit` provider if that program is installed, and a sufficiently reliable internet connection is available. This is the easiest way to share the sanitized results with the Ubuntu Community for support. It has 3 other fallback methods to upload the pastebin of 'pastebinit' is not installed, using either 'curl', 'wget', or netcat ('nc') After successful upload to the pastebin, it will both display and log the URL of the uploaded report (`~/system-info-link.log`), for you to copy and paste in your post on the Ubuntu Forums. (See note on missing programs below.)
If not uploaded to a Pastebin, if the 'system-info.txt' report exceeds 19.5 kB in size, it will offer to create the archive `system-info.tar.gz` for you to be able to add as an attachment to a Forum Post.
You can download and run the script using either the GUI desktop, or from the command line (Console or Terminal Session). Use whichever method you are more comfortable with.
Download from Github:
Code:
wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/system-info/raw/main/system-info && \
chmod +x system-info && \
./system-info <options>