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Re: hostid probem in Compaq DS20-E server with Linux 7.2
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: hostid probem in Compaq DS20-E server with Linux 7.2 |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:14:49 +0100 |
> We are facing problem in hostid program. We have installed two DS20-E
> Compaq servers and Red hat Linux 7.2 (supplied by Compaq) to one of our
> customer. Output of hostid progarm is not appropriate. Output of hostid
> program in both servers is 7f0100. It should be 8 or 12 digit unique no. as
> this gives information of system identification.
> Please suggest us to solve this problem and send if some patch is there.
All the hostid program does is print a 32-bit identifier associated
with the current machine. Normally, the identifier is related
to a machine's IP address, but that's not a requirement.
You can set it to whatever you want via the sethostid function call.
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