Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer
Yes indeed. It comes as standard in Debian, and I think Ubuntu also, but I don't know about the rest. Its in /usr/sbin and requires root privileges, implying sudo, which also may well not be available in all distros, and not to the particular user in any case. It isn't very neat. Maybe run the app install as root and change the permissions and put a link in /usr/bin? Not an expert on this stuff. Peter Ken Ray wrote: But given the many Linux distros, would it be safe to say that this may not work on all distros? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-the-Serial-Number-of-the-User%27s-computer-tp20921219p20937840.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer
On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Paul Looney wrote: How can I retrieve the computer serial number in OS X, Vista and Linux from Rev? Thanks in advance, I appreciate it. Hi Paul, This is how we get the serial on OS X using shell. It is very fast and has the added benefit of identifying refurb macs. function getSerial put empty into tSerial put shell(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType) into tResult repeat with x=1 to the number of lines of tResult if Serial Number is in line x of tResult then put line x of tResult into tSerial end repeat if tSerial is not empty then put the last word of tSerial into tSerial if tSerial is empty then put Refurb Mac into tSerial return tSerial end getSerial Mark Talluto http://www.canelasoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer
Never personally used it in anger, but in Linux its dmidecode. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/how-to-get-hardware-information-on-linux-using-dmidecode-command/ Peter Paul Looney wrote: How can I retrieve the computer serial number in OS X, Vista and Linux from Rev? Thanks in advance, I appreciate it. Paul Looney ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-the-Serial-Number-of-the-User%27s-computer-tp20921219p20921793.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer
Thank you, Peter. One down, two to go. Paul Looney On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Never personally used it in anger, but in Linux its dmidecode. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/how-to-get-hardware-information- on-linux-using-dmidecode-command/ Peter Paul Looney wrote: How can I retrieve the computer serial number in OS X, Vista and Linux from Rev? Thanks in advance, I appreciate it. Paul Looney ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-the- Serial-Number-of-the-User%27s-computer-tp20921219p20921793.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer
How can I retrieve the computer serial number in OS X, Vista and Linux from Rev? Here's what I have, Paul... for OS X it can take a while (a few seconds) to get the number on OS X (since it has to go through a series of different system_profiler data types), but it works (watch for wraps): function stsGetSerialNumber pWinDriveLetter local tID switch (the platform) case MacOS put shell(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType) into tData put matchText(tData,(?s)Serial Number:\W*(.*?)\n,tID) into tIsMatch break case Win32 if pWinDriveLetter = then put C: into tDriveLetter else put pWinDriveLetter into tDriveLetter if length(tDriveLetter) = 1 then put : after tDriveLetter set the hideConsoleWindows to true if the shellCommand command.com then put shell(tDriveLetter dir) into tData else put c:\temp.bat into tBatPath put tDriveLetter cr dir into url (file: tBatPath) put shell(start tBatPath) into tData delete file tBatPath end if put matchText(tData,(?s)Serial Number is\W*(.*?)\n,tID) into tIsMatch break end switch if tIsMatch then return tID else return STSError: Can't locate serial number. end if end stsGetSerialNumber Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer
Paul Looney wrote: Thank you, Peter. One down, two to go. This may be of use: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/env001.htm Ken knows everything. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer
Ken, It worked perfectly, of course. Thank you. Paul Looney On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Ken Ray wrote: How can I retrieve the computer serial number in OS X, Vista and Linux from Rev? Here's what I have, Paul... for OS X it can take a while (a few seconds) to get the number on OS X (since it has to go through a series of different system_profiler data types), but it works (watch for wraps): function stsGetSerialNumber pWinDriveLetter local tID switch (the platform) case MacOS put shell(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType) into tData put matchText(tData,(?s)Serial Number:\W*(.*?)\n,tID) into tIsMatch break case Win32 if pWinDriveLetter = then put C: into tDriveLetter else put pWinDriveLetter into tDriveLetter if length(tDriveLetter) = 1 then put : after tDriveLetter set the hideConsoleWindows to true if the shellCommand command.com then put shell(tDriveLetter dir) into tData else put c:\temp.bat into tBatPath put tDriveLetter cr dir into url (file: tBatPath) put shell(start tBatPath) into tData delete file tBatPath end if put matchText(tData,(?s)Serial Number is\W*(.*?)\n,tID) into tIsMatch break end switch if tIsMatch then return tID else return STSError: Can't locate serial number. end if end stsGetSerialNumber Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer
Jacque, Ken really does know everything! He had actually replied before you suggest his site. Of course, YOU know everything, too. Those of us second tier programmers on this list are very fortunate to have both of you helping us. Paul Looney On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Paul Looney wrote: Thank you, Peter. One down, two to go. This may be of use: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/ tips/env001.htm Ken knows everything. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer
Never personally used it in anger, but in Linux its dmidecode. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/how-to-get-hardware-information-on-linux-u sing-dmidecode-command/ It seems you can get it by doing dmidecode -t 1, but it requires permission, so you would need to sudo and provide a password to get it. The way you do *that*, is (assumes the password is in the variable tPwd): put #!/bin/sh cr into tScript put pw= quote tPwd quote cr after tScript put echo $pw | sudo -S dmidecode -t 1 tPID cr after tScript put shell(tScript) into tResult -- Then parse tResult looking for Serial Number: But given the many Linux distros, would it be safe to say that this may not work on all distros? I know it doesn't work in a virtual device (when I do this under VMWare, I don't get any System Information - I get HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed), but would it work for the most common distros? Just curious... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
