/* change system id on IRIX 6.5 - only minimally tested on an IP22 machine consider this a very early alpha - ratatosk@mail2me.com placed in the public domain by the author - 1999 since the system ID on different types of SGI hardware is obtained in different ways, YMMV. This may even crash your machine. compile by -- cc -o change-sid change-sid.c -lelf run this with no parameters first and make sure it reports the correct system id if all is well, you can run it with the system id you want (in hex) as the first parameter */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include struct nlist nl[2]; main(argc,argv) int argc; char *argv[]; { int kmem; int just_read = 0; unsigned int new_id, cur_id; off_t where; just_read = (argc <= 1); if (argc > 1) new_id = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 16); if ((kmem = open("/dev/kmem", O_RDWR)) < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "cannot open /dev/kmem\n"); exit(1); } nl[0].n_name="mc_rev_level"; nl[1].n_name = NULL; if (nlist("/unix", nl) < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "cannot read namelist out of /unix\n"); exit(1); } if ((where = nl[0].n_value) == 0) { fprintf(stderr, "unknown kernel variable eccf_addr\n"); exit(1); } if (lseek(kmem, where + 12, SEEK_SET) == (-1)) { fprintf(stderr, "lseek on /dev/kmem failed\n"); exit(1); } if (!just_read) { if (write (kmem, &new_id, 4) < 4) { fprintf(stderr, "write to /dev/kmem failed\n"); exit(1); } } else { if (read(kmem, &cur_id, 4) < 4) { fprintf(stderr, "read failed\n"); exit(1); } printf("hexadecimal system id seems to be %08x\n", cur_id); } close(kmem); exit(0); }