Re: hostid

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

Tim Sailer wrote:
> 
> 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:~>
> 

So there is a debian command for it! Well, it doesn't come from hardware
in linux and isn't guaranteed to be unique, which is what this number
was intended to do. I believe DCE needs some number like this.

-- 
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com


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