landscape-sysinfo(1)

💖 landscape-sysinfo — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, you found yourself in section 1 of the manual pages, and this is the tea on landscape-sysinfo(1). it's giving "your computer telling you how it's doing" and honestly? iconic. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

landscape-sysinfo — displays a summary of the current system status. literally what it says on the tin, no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

landscape-sysinfo [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

landscape-sysinfo is a utility that shows you info about the computer it's running on. it pops up upon login for console users (ssh and terminal login both supported, don't worry), and you can also summon it literally any time by just calling landscape-sysinfo from the command line. main character energy fr fr. 👑

the output is fully controllable — you can enable or disable its plugins however you like. (scroll down, we get into it. i got you.)

🚨 okay important warning time, bestie. if the system load is higher than the number of cores — and the number of cores is determined by counting the processor lines in /proc/cpuinfo — then landscape-sysinfo will not run at login time. why? because it refuses to potentially make a bad situation worse by interfering with what could be an administrator logging in to try and fix the problem causing that high load. it's being polite. it's being considerate. it's not the moment. 😭

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --version — shows the program's version number and then exits. bye! 👋
• -h, --help — shows this help message and exits.
• -c FILE, --config=FILE — use config from this file. any command line options override settings from the file. (default: '/etc/landscape/client.conf')
• -d PATH, --data-path=PATH — the directory to store data files in. (default: '/var/lib/landscape/client/')
• --sysinfo-plugins=PLUGIN_LIST — comma-delimited list of sysinfo plugins to use.
• --exclude-sysinfo-plugins=PLUGIN_LIST — comma-delimited list of sysinfo plugins to NOT use. this one always takes precedence over plugins to include. periodt. ✋

Available plugins: Load, Disk, Memory, Temperature, Processes, LoggedInUsers, Network

Default plugins: Load, Disk, Memory, Temperature, Processes, LoggedInUsers, Network

so yes, the default is all of them. the full lineup. the whole squad. 🌈

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💜 CONFIGURATION FILE 💜

any of the long command-line options can be used as a configuration directive in that configuration file, under the [sysinfo] section — you just replace the hyphen (-) with an underscore (_). glow-up transformation, honestly.

so like, say you want to disable the Network and Temperature plugins without having to type the command line option every time. you can add this to /etc/landscape/client.conf:

[sysinfo]
exclude_sysinfo_plugins = Temperature, Network

and boom. done. no notes. 💅

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

this is the default configuration with all plugins enabled:

$ landscape-sysinfo

  System load:    0.66               Processes:             242
  Usage of /home: 72.0% of 27.50GB   Users logged in:       1
  Memory usage:   31%                IP address for wlan0:  10.0.1.6
  Swap usage:     0%                 IP address for virbr0: 192.168.122.1
  Temperature:    47 C

  => There is 1 zombie process.

(not the zombie process 😭 it's fine, it's fine)

and if you want to disable the temperature and Network plugins, you could run it like this:

$ landscape-sysinfo --exclude-sysinfo-plugins=Temperature,Network

  System load: 0.3               Memory usage: 12%   Processes:       88
  Usage of /:  14.0% of 9.52GB   Swap usage:   0%    Users logged in: 1

  => There is 1 zombie process.

look how much tidier. minimalism ate. ✨

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🧚 FILES 🧚

• /etc/landscape/client.conf — configuration file
• /var/log/landscape/sysinfo.log — log file for when the tool is run as root. this file will usually be empty, unless something wrong happened. and in that case? it'll have more information about the problem. so if things are weird, check here, bestie. 🔍
  • when a regular non-root user runs the tool, the log file is ~/.landscape/sysinfo.log instead.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

landscape-client(1) update-motd(5)

go read those too, iykyk. 📚

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and that's the whole page, bestie! 💖

this manual page came from landscape-sysinfo(1) and it's dated 25 November 2025. go forth and check your system status, you absolute icon. 🌸💅🦋