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- From: cpcahil@vti.com (Conor P. Cahill)
- Subject: Re: HOSTID's for SCO and ISC UNIX???
- Message-ID: <C0HKoy.B7F@vti.com>
- Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
- References: <1993Jan3.185818.5926@ais.com> <1ibi3qINN1e0@multix.multix.no> <1993Jan6.003154.255@homebase.vistachrome.com> <C0HA5L.1Bp@prd.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:41:22 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- rar@multix.no (Rolf A. Rennemo) writes:
- >scott@ais.com writes:
- >>Does anyone know of a way to get some unique machine id under SCO and
- >>Interactive Unix? Something like what 'hostid' returns on a DEC?
- >
- >For SunSoft ISC UNIX you can user /etc/ser to return serial number.
- >I think it was included in ver. 3.0.1.
-
- One thing to note about /etc/ser is that this is a user-registered serial
- number. If you are intending to use this as a way to prevent unauthorized
- copying of your software, it doesn't work very well because if they
- are going to copy your software, they probably also copy the OS.
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