so you're saying as long as the sdr version doesn't change the cache is 
valid?  I don't think I can go by the date though, based on the dates0 
"ipmitool sdr info" is reporting on my system  8-)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ipmitool sdr info
SDR Version                         : 0x51
Record Count                        : 30
Free Space                          : 20503 bytes
Most recent Addition                : 01/29/2092 11:55:52
Most recent Erase                   : 01/29/2092 11:55:52
SDR overflow                        : no
SDR Repository Update Support       : modal
Delete SDR supported                : no
Partial Add SDR supported           : yes
Reserve SDR repository supported    : yes
SDR Repository Alloc info supported : no

-mark

Al Chu wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> The SDR can change during a firmware update or something similarly (new
> motherboard rev, etc.).  In FreeIPMI, I check the SDR version number and
> timestamps to verify if cached SDR data is valid/invalid.  
>
> I assume the same could be done with the output from 'sdr info'.
>
> Al
>
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 13:15 -0400, Mark Seger wrote:
>   
>> I want to be able to run ipmitool -S from a script that for all intents 
>> and purposes runs forever.  If I create the dump file once is that 
>> sufficient or are these cases when it would be invalid and need to be 
>> refresh?
>> -mark
>>
>>
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