Re: hostid
In message <[🔎] 87ena6xr2i.fsfjgh@win.bright.net>, writes:
>Joey Hess writes:
>> Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address.
>
>And this is supposed to make it unique? Somehow I suspect that mine is not
>the only machine with IP 192.168.1.
RTFM?! The man page says that hostid is _normally_ set to resemble the
host's internet address; it can be set by the superuser to any value.
>From the point of view of a vendor wanting to secure a software licence,
it's not much good!
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