Getting Server information via Cygwin

[toddyl]

Hi,

I've developed a Perl script which runs on Unix/Linux servers and gets server information. Part of this script looks up things like /etc/release (or /etc/redhat-relase on Linux) and runs uname to get various OS info.

I've now been asked to find a way to run this script on our Windows servers. I looked at Cygwin and figured that was the best way of going about this. When I run the script on Cygwin I'm getting a lot of information -- however I am unable to get OS information related to Windows but instead am getting Cygwin data as output.

Does anyone know how I can run DOS commands, or even other unix commands, from Cygwin to find out the version of Windows etc.

Thanks for your help,

Tom

 

[PHV]

how I can run DOS commands
cmd.exe /C your dos command here

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[feherke]

Hi

CygWin receives the host operating system's environment variables. And just run whatever you want.

[blue]master #[/blue] perl -e 'print "Running NotePad in $ENV{\"OS\"}\n";system "notepad"'
Running NotePad in Windows_NT

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/