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# SoS

Sos is an extensible, portable, support data collection tool primarily
aimed at Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems.

This project is hosted at:

  * http://github.com/sosreport/sos

For the latest version, to contribute, and for more information, please visit
the project pages or join the mailing list.

To clone the current master (development) branch run:

```
git clone git://github.com/sosreport/sos.git
```
## Reporting bugs

Please report bugs via the mailing list or by opening an issue in the [GitHub
Issue Tracker][5]

## Mailing list

The [sos-devel][4] mailing list is used to discussi sos development and reviewing patches. User questions and general discussion are welcome too.

## Developers

Patches can be submitted via the mailing list or as GitHub pull requests. If
using GitHub please make sure your branch applies to the current master as a
'fast forward' merge (i.e. without creating a merge commit). Use the `git
rebase` command to update your branch to the current master if necessary.

### Wiki documentation

* [How to write a plugin][1]
* [How to write a policy][2]
* [Plugin options][3]

To help get your changes merged quickly with as few revisions as possible
please refer to the [Contributor Guidelines][0] when submitting patches or
pull requests.


### Manual Installation

```
to install locally (as root) ==> make install
to build an rpm ==> make rpm
to build a deb ==> make deb
```

### Pre-built Packaging

Fedora/RHEL users install via yum:

```
yum install sos
```

Debian(Sid) users install via apt:

```
apt-get install sosreport
```


Ubuntu(Saucy 13.10 and above) users install via apt:

```
sudo apt-get install sosreport
```

 [0]: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/wiki/Contribution-Guidelines
 [1]: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/wiki/How-to-Write-a-Plugin
 [2]: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/wiki/How-to-Write-a-Policy
 [3]: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/wiki/Plugin-options
 [4]: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/sos-devel
 [5]: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues?state=open