Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: hostid derived from... | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:55:34 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> how does linux provide the hostid string?
Its up to the C library
> on a sun box this is a guaranteed unique identifier, since AFAIK > intel architecture does not have this unique identifier can > two linux boxes end up with same hostid by chance?
Easily. hostid is generally only useful to proprietary license managers so its a relatively minor issue in the Linux world. You can set it by sticking the data you want in /etc/hostid
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