From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: kern@e-zebra.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hostid derived from...
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:55:34 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14ftO5-0001VB-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103221210090.15305-100000@wolf.ezebra.net> from "kern@e-zebra.net" at Mar 22, 2001 12:12:57 PM
> how does linux provide the hostid string?
Its up to the C library
> on a sun box this is a guaranteed unique identifier, since AFAIK
> intel architecture does not have this unique identifier can
> two linux boxes end up with same hostid by chance?
Easily. hostid is generally only useful to proprietary license managers so
its a relatively minor issue in the Linux world. You can set it by sticking
the data you want in /etc/hostid
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-22 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-22 0:12 kern
2001-03-22 0:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-03-22 1:43 ` David Schwartz
2001-03-22 13:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
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