Michael J. Maravillo wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:30:29PM +0800, philip wrote:
>
>>the command 'hostid' prints the numeric indentifier for the
>>current host as it says on the man page. Can anyone tell me
>>what else can I get from this command? it's supposed to be in
>>hexadecimal. but in one case it returns 0 or 1.
>>
>
>The return value is not guaranteed.  See "info hostid".
>
got the answer. try removing the 127.0.0.1 entry in your hosts file and 
do a 'hostid' again. it should return '0'
tnx anyways good day again


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