Re: hostid

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote:
> 
> Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote:
> > 
> >         These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont know
> > where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ...
> > 
> >         I would like to know what is the hostid of a computer. Where does
> > it come from ?
> 
> Linux doesn't have a hostid. Sun workstations have a hostid. It is a
> 32-bit number which is guaranteed to be unique on a Sun and is contained
> in a EPROM on the mainboard. Sun uses this number for various things
> (like using it to create a licensing key when a license is for a 
> single-use, single-machine piece of software).


Umm....

llug:~> uname -a
Linux llug 2.0.30 #2 Sun May 18 00:47:52 EDT 1997 i586 unknown
llug:~> hostid
0xc782f032
llug:~> 
 

Tim

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