Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?
Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>:
> 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.
Corollary, it recommends that hostid is best documented in info. What
is the Debian package that offers hostid info pages? I ought to know
this by now but this sort of thing has been bugging me for a while.
Thanks.
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