Getting hard drive serial number from USB devices

[Madison Kelly]

Paul Sutton wrote:
> Cool that works fine on my system, i had to run it as root though,  
> anyway,  I have a routine somewhere that checks to see if you are logged 
> in as root but that is a bash script,  is there anything similar in perl 
> that can be added to this?
> 
> is 755 the correct permissions for this? IIRC the answer is yes.  but 
> anyone got any other suggestions that would be useful.
> 
> Paul

 From my installer script:

if ( $< ne "0" )
{
	die "I am sorry but this install script must be run by the root!";
}

Madison

PS - Yes, 755 is a good permission and yes, it needs to be run as root.

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