True - but we intend to collect the inventory as root anyway. :-)
On Sep 23, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Christopher Samuel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24/09/14 00:57, Ralph Castain wrote:
>
>> Memory info is available from lshw, though they are a GPL code:
>
> FWIW on this laptop (Intel Haswell) lshw only report DIMM info when run
> as root, which I suspect would point them to accessing DMI information
> via /dev/mem.
>
> Using strace supports this:
>
> 3405 open("/dev/mem", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>
> FWIW dmidecode does the same.
>
> samuel@haswell:~$ dmidecode
> # dmidecode 2.12
> /dev/mem: Permission denied
>
> All the best,
> Chris
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