[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#7003: closed (Serial Number of Linux Operating System)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Serial Number of Linux Operating System Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 11:30:29 +0530

Dear David,

 

                “This is not relevant to any bug with any of the commands but  just  a clarification”

 

                I’m an amateur to the linux environment. I have been trying some days to find the serial number of linux operating system in a generic way(applicable to most of the distros). But I could not. I have tried the following possibilities.

 

1.       Uname –X =  is not supported in my machine, I hope I require an advanced version for this.

2.       dmidecode   does not have OS specific information. With this tool,  serial numbers of BIOS, processor etc are successful but not that of OS’.

3.       Cat /etc/*release or /etc/*version or cat /proc/version.

4.       lsattr and sysinfo commands.

 

Just for your info-I’m using RHEL 5.4 32 bit version.

Is this serial number retrieval specific to  vendor  or  not?  Please help me in identifying the way to find the serial number of OS.

 

Also let me know the difference between the version and release of a kernel. Uname –r gives me the release of the kernel and uname –v gives the version which I find actually as a date and time information – does it mean the build time of the kernel. Then what does cat /etc/*release file convey?  I mean I want to what a version exactly mean and is it same as 5.4?

 

 

Thanks,

Sudarshan.

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> Sudarshan N C. wrote:
> >                 "This is not relevant to any bug with any of the
> > commands but  just  a clarification"
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> In the future it would be better to send these types of questions to
> the coreutils discussion list instead of to bug-coreutils, since it
> isn't a bug and that way it won't open a bug in the defect tracker.
> Since this isn't a bug I am going to close it.
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> >                 I'm an amateur to the linux environment. I have been
> > trying some days to find the serial number of linux operating system in
> > a generic way(applicable to most of the distros). But I could not.
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> In the GNU/Linux environment there really isn't a serial number
> available.  What you are asking for isn't possible.
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> > Also let me know the difference between the version and release of a
> > kernel. Uname -r gives me the release of the kernel and uname -v gives
> > the version which I find actually as a date and time information - does
> > it mean the build time of the kernel.
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> Yes.  You are correct.  But different vendors put different
> information in there.  IBM AIX puts major release (4) and minor
> release (3) for 4.3 for example.  There isn't a standard for it.
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> > Then what does cat /etc/*release file convey?  I mean I want to what
> > a version exactly mean and is it same as 5.4?
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> That is a vendor specific file with vendor specific information.
> Every vendor puts different things in there.  It is intended to
> indicate the operating system version.  But the format of the
> information varies from vendor to vendor.
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> Bob
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