On Mon Nov 17, 2008 at 18:58:15 +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > I am wondering if there is any sane way to get a unique ID for a system. > That means both hardware- and Xen-based. > Of course, I could try to mangle all this into an ID, but that process > is error-prone. Maybe there is any tool which can achieve this? hostid - contained in the coreutils package. Steve -- http://www.steve.org.uk/