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- From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
- Subject: Re: Ethernet id
- Organization: CYANTIC Systems
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:21:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.142120.25191@cyantic.com>
- References: <1ebef5INNosc@gap.caltech.edu> <1ebpp5INNr5d@menudo.uh.edu>
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- In article <1ebpp5INNr5d@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes:
- >In article <1ebef5INNosc@gap.caltech.edu> madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
- >writes:
- >=>
- >=>>> Try grepping through /usr/adm/messages for "Ethernet address".
- >=>
- >=>This might not work. messages appears to have a size limit, and stuff
- >=>drops off of the beginning. messages.old is the same, so it can drop
- >=>off of there too. Just for fun, I grepped for "Ethernet address" on
- >=>every file in /usr/adm on a long-ago booted NeXT, and it wasn't there.
- >=>
- >
- >Not entirely. The stuff in /usr/adm is trimmed daily, weekly and monthly by
- >the various scripts that are run via cron. This helps keep the logs from
- >growing indefinately. For example, messages and syslog are trimmed daily as
- >they can grow to a rather large size within a day on a busy server. The
- >messages.old is the previous day's log.
- >
- >=>Mark Adler
- >=>madler@cco.caltech.edu
-
- I guess there are pro's and cons to most of these methods. Different
- strokes.......
-
- Anyway, here's another possibility. In NetManager, there is a field for
- storing the ethernet address. Once it has been entered there, it will show
- up in the NetInfo tables. Of course, this all depends on getting the
- address in the first place, but having it in NetInfo isn't a bad idea for
- general network management.
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