Hi, On 03/03/2010 09:23 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > [herrold at centos-5 ~]$ rpm -qi sos > Name : sos the only issue with sos ( son of sysreport! ) is that it provides a lot of info, including many things that people would consider 'sensitive' in security and privacy terms. Not sure if I'd want to give anyone I didnt implicitly trust ( eg. with a user account on the system ) the complete output from sos on any of my machines. [1] on the other hand, sos plugins are quite easy to write, and perhaps a command line that disables the 'standard' plugins might be worth looking into. - KB [1] My own sos info might be a bit dated, early last year ( 2009 ) I was looking into writing a web app that would allow people to submit sos output to track 'state' but ended up writing a plugin that just gives me via email what i need.