Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2413 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 23:09 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > On Saturday 07 February 2009 04:34:18 Lee Ross wrote:
> > > > I am running 10.3 x86_64 on here right now and when I look in
> > > > /proc/cpuinfo the file is empty.
> > > OK, that sounds extremely strange. You should report this in bugzilla
> >
> > I don't have anything in that file either.....on ALL systems I've
> > check...Intel and AMD 64 bit.
> >
> > Fred
>
> and from another post in thread:
>
> > No, it's not so strange. The /proc file system is a bit special, the "files"
> > in there aren't real files, they are generated dynamically on the fly when
> > they are read. Maybe konqueror does something wrong there, I don't know.
>
>
>       Adding on what Anders mentioned, to "read" the file, the safest way to 
> do that
> is just to cat the file and redirect it into a real file and then try and 
> read it:
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo > ~/Documents/mycpuinfo
>
>       Then you have a regular file to read. You should see something like:
>
>
> 22:16 alchemy:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD

  I just tried this on my 32 bit and 64 bot AMD systems, and I do get
output, but I'm running 32bit Linux on both, are you as well David?

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