RE: OK, so who broke /usr/bin/AppleSystemProfiler?
RE: OK, so who broke /usr/bin/AppleSystemProfiler?
- Subject: RE: OK, so who broke /usr/bin/AppleSystemProfiler?
- From: "Fox, Christopher B" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:39:32 -0400
Charles:
There are other commands you can use at the terminal level that
might get you the information you need. You could try ifconfig, for example,
to acquire information on the various NICs installed in a machine.
Christopher Fox
Senior Support Technician
Solicitations IT
Capital One
cel: 804-301-4117
tel: 804-967-1553
fax: 804-968-2052
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From: Charles Arthur
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Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 1:47 PM
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To: Fox, Christopher B; email@hidden
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Subject: RE: OK, so who broke /usr/bin/AppleSystemProfiler?
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Hi all....
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At 12:32 pm -0400 16/9/2002, Fox, Christopher B wrote:
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> I don't have a good answer to your real question concerning the
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>command line version of Apple System Profiler, but I do have a
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>recommendation: Don't rely on the hardware serial number information
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>available in Apple System Profiler as a unique identifier of a given
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>Macintosh.
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Fair enough..
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>You could always try for the MAC address of a NIC.
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Sure, but this then rounds back to the question: how do you run the ASP in
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the command line only, so that people aren't spooked by an app launching
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in
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the dock and then taking ages to do anything?
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I'm wondering if this is due to the default shell being changed, or
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something in /sbin/AppleSystemProfiler being altered.
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Charles
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