HAL and persistant storage

[Patrick Jacquot]

Eric Munson wrote:

>Sorry for not being more clear about what I was looking for.  lshal will
>give me a dump of what is on the system, but I need a query-able
>collection.  Can hal keep a database of hardware information?
>
>Eric Munson
>ebmunson at us.ibm.com
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>Kay Sievers wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:22 -0700, Eric Munson wrote:
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>>>Is it possible to configure HAL to store the hardware attached to a
>>>system at any given point (say with a cron job or at shutdown/boot up)
>>>so that you can compare hardware lists from two or more times?
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>>>
>>lshal?
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>>Kay
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so :
in a cron job, use perl (or Python, for example) to get lshal response,
process it and insert the data into a database. There are plenty of them

HTH

Cordialement
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Patrick