Serial number

2007-12-25 10:52:00

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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