Re: UNIX command to display Sun serial number??????

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:00

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In <vilainE4CHE1.IyA@netcom.com> vilain@netcom.com (Michael Vilain) writes:

>  The serial number is not possible to obtain via any
>software probe of the hardware either in the PROM prompt or from the running
>OS.  The _is_ a hostid, which is used by SUN and others who use the FLEXlm
>license software which can be obtained using the 'hostid' command.  It's
>stored in the EEPROM on the motherboard along with the ethernet address.

The Host-ID is comprised of the machine type (8 bits), followed by the hex
equivalent (24 bits) of the serial number. So, if you can find out the
host-id, then determining the serial number is trivial. 

For example, my personal machine at home is a Sparc LC (aka Classic). 
Typing 'hostid' produces:

80022858

The most significant byte (0x80) is the machine type, and the other 3 
bytes are the hex equivalent of the serial number, so the base-10 value 
of the serial number is 141400..

Regards,

Craig.
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From: craig@zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Subject: Re: UNIX command to display Sun serial number??????
Date: 1997/01/21
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