MAC Address on Linux

[Ken Ray]

On 10/9/04 11:42 AM, "Mark Talluto" <userev at canelasoftware.com> wrote:

>> On 10/8/04 3:45 PM, "Mark Talluto" <userev at canelasoftware.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for the tip!  It worked like a charm.  Once I get the parsing
>> of
>>> the returned data down, I'll update Ken with the Linux bit.
>> 
>> Thanks, Mark! I'd appreciate that...
>> 
> 
> Ken,
> 
> Here is the snippet for finding the MAC Address on Linux.  I had to
> learn some basics on PCRE syntax.  Took a while, but was worth the
> knowledge.
> 
> case "Linux"
>      if there is a file("/sbin/ifconfig") then
>        put shell("/sbin/ifconfig") into temp
>        get matchText(temp,"HWaddr[* ]([0-9A-Z:]*)",retVal)
>      else
>        return "An error has occured."
>      end if
>      break

Thanks, Mark... I tried this in my copy of RedHat 9, and I don't get
anything with "HWaddr" in /sbin/ifconfig. When I looked at Mark W
> 

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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Email: kray at sonsothunder.com