SoS === Sos is an extensible, portable, support data collection tool primarily aimed at Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems. This is the SoS developer documentation, for user documentation refer to: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/wiki 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: .. code:: 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 Mailing list ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ `sos-devel `_ is the mailing list for any sos-related questions and discussion. Patch submissions and reviews are welcome too. Patches and pull requests ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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. Documentation ============= User and API `documentation `_ is automatically generated using `Sphinx `_ and `Read the Docs `_. Wiki ^^^^ `How to write a plugin `_ `How to write a policy `_ `Plugin options `_ To help get your changes merged quickly with as few revisions as possible please refer to the `Contributor Guidelines `_ when submitting patches or pull requests. Installation ============ Manual Installation ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: 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`` API === Plugin Reference ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 plugins Core Reference ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 archive policies reporting utilities