On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 04:17:33AM +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
>
> Can someone explain what hostid actually indicates ? On my
> linux box, hostid command gives a number. Now, I created a
> file /etc/hostid and put a number there. now, hostid command
> gives a different number, but not the one I put in the file
> /etc/hostid.
hostid is a set of programs coming wuth GNU sh-utils package
and also includes things like gethostid and sethostid. These
are used to - get or set the unique identifier of the current
host. The importance of this unique number is to identify the
box (needed on intranets and the like).
Changing /etc/hostid manually will not work. You need to run
sethostid, and obtain the data.
Most distros have this gethostid/ sethostid crippled and may
not include them. You need to compile them on your box to get
to the bottom of these. You may have to get the source code
for sh-utils for this kind of thing.
See if you have the man pages for hostid, gethostid, sethostid
and gethostbyname installed. The full docs are as info pages.
HTH
Bish
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