On Tue, 20.04.10 14:52, Darryl L. Pierce (dpierce@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Does anything return the UUID for the host system? Such as what was > returned by hal with: > > (mcpierce@mcpierce-desktop:~)$ hal-get-property --udi \ > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer --key system.hardware.uuid > 00DD19E3-DD3A-DE11-90DA-812C97507C34 That's the product UUID key from the DMI data, which you also can read from sysfs: /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_uuid Not sure what you want to use this for, but given that many BIOS vendors just write rubbish to that field, it's mostly useless. The D-Bus machine ID is usually more useful, as stored in /var/lib/dbus/machine-id. It's nowadays available on virtually all systems and considered part of the D-Bus API, and hence can be reliably be used to identify a system. There's no need to actually use libdbus to read that file. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
