Re: hostid
In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote:
> >
> > 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.
I'll have to look at the source to see what it actually does. I have yet
to see a dupe.
Tim
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