Re: how to find system serial number

"Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You can't depend on `dmidecode' for a unique serial number. Here's what
I get on my machine (many lines of output deleted):

   Serial Number: SYS-1234567890
   Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxx
   Asset Tag: Asset-1234567890

--- Vladimir

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>>>>> "MW" == Matt Wilson <[email protected]> writes:

  > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:02:16AM -0700, from sinha wrote:
  >> Hi,
  >> 
  >> I am using redhat 8.0
  >> I am looking for a command which can display system
  >> serial number. Can anyone pl.s help me.

  > dmidecode, in the kernel-utils package.
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