SUMMARY: Serial number

From: Igor Schein (igor@txc.com)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 12:30:38 CDT


On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 03:42:49PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to extract systems serial number from
> a running kernel? I have E250 running 2.7, and hw_serial
> kernel variable contains a 10-digit decimal number. However,
> it's different from Sun serial number, which has 8 characters,
> with one of them being 'h' ( so the number cannot be hexadecimal ).
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks
>
> igor

Thanks to

Pyne, Jeffrey
Christophe Coll
Casper Dik
Michael Cunning
Mark Henderson

The consensus is that there's no way to obtain a Sun serial number
from OS. sysinfo, a freeware tool by MagniComp., is no exception.

Igor



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