Coomand for Machine serial number

[thebundies]

Is there a command to get the serial number of a SUN system running Solaris 8.

 

[Annihilannic]

Nope, you just have to look for the label on the back of the system.

Sometimes the serial number is included as part of the default system-wide ethernet address/MAC. What model is it? Annihilannic.

 

[SamBones]

Yeah, the following should help...
[tt]
#include <sys/systeminfo.h>

char buf[128];

if (sysinfo(SI_HW_SERIAL, buf, 128) == -1) {
perror(&quot;sysinfo&quot;
exit(1);
}
[/tt]
See the man page for sysinfo.

 

[SamBones]

I've also seen it done from the command line. There was some software I had installed quite a few years ago that needed the hardware serial number for their copy protection scheme. They would give you a &quot;key&quot; for the software so it would only run on that system.

I just can't quite remember the command.

 

[SamBones]

Try the [tt]hostid[/tt] command. The man page says...
[tt]
NAME
hostid - print the numeric identifier of the current host

SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/hostid

DESCRIPTION
The hostid command prints the identifier of the current host
in hexadecimal. This numeric value is likely to differ when
hostid is run on a different machine.
[/tt]

 

[SeSe]

The hostid is the system MAC address. Nothing more...