| Title: | -={ H A C K E R S }=- |
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| Moderator: | DIEHRD::MORRIS |
| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Aug 03 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 680 |
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I work on numerous customer machines. As part of this work I often
find it necessary to determine exactly what software (type and version)
is running on a particular machine. What I would like to develop
is a program/procedure which can identify the types and versions
of various Digital products running on a VAX.
I have played with the SHCOMMA utility fom the toolshed and it has
alot of potential here. Unfortunately it doesn't exactly go out
and identify the products on a system. What I am looking for is
ideas of things to look for in identifying various products. A list
of what I have thought of to date follows:
1) - DCL commands from the DCL tables
Question: are there any products which would not have some
identifying signature in the DCL tables
2) - help libraries in sys$help
3) - executables in sys$system
To be more specific, I have a list of products which I want ot be
able to identify. If this would be of help I'll post it here (it's
a list of about 30 of our most common products). Comments would
be appreciated.
Til next time,
Robin.
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| 285.1 | CLT::GILBERT | eager like a child | Tue Aug 12 1986 03:39 | 14 | |
I'd go after the EXEs in SYS$SYSTEM, for several reasons. To get the version numbers, you have to read the EXEs, anyway. SHCOMMA is 'forinternaluseonly'. While most Digital products get DCL verbs, most OEM products do not. The approach I'd take is to get a directory of .EXEs in SYS$SYSTEM (oh, what the heck -- get those in SYS$SHARE, too), parse the contents of SYS$UPDATE:VMSKITBLD.DAT, and see which files aren't listed there. For these non-VMS .EXEs, read the first block, and display the version. Also, take a look at the callable Sort/Merge documentation, in particular the equal-key callback routine. This should be useful for 'throwing away' those files that also appear in VMSKITBLD. | |||||
| 285.2 | ANALYZE/IMAGE | FROST::HARRIMAN | you want it when? | Tue Aug 12 1986 12:41 | 4 |
Ever heard of ANALYZE/IMAGE? That will even give the first block
in an almost human-readable format, including the dates...
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| 285.3 | Not all show up in SYS$SYSTEM | AKOV68::NORRIS | What is it, Miss Pfeffernuss? | Tue Aug 12 1986 12:48 | 9 |
I'd also look at the top level of SYS$SYSROOT and SYS$SYSDEVICE.
Some products build their own directories; WPS-PLUS/VMS, ALL-IN-1,
LSE, etc.
It's also possible to build these products on a different disk,
so there's a lot of places you could look.
Ed
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| 285.4 | Try VERSIONS | NANDI::LAMIA | Cheap, fast, good -- pick two | Tue Aug 12 1986 13:32 | 5 |
Also see the VERSIONS tool from the toolshed.
Press Select to add the Toolshed Notes catalog to you notebook now.
Walt
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