what is hostuuid, hostid (for)?

2008-07-25 Thread Sandra Kachelmann
I just setup a new server with 7.0-RELEASE and saw the following lines for the fist time when booting the system: Setting hostuuid: 2231232f-4000--2333-aafbb88a88ca. Setting hostid: 0x89e3310b. What exactly are those for? Is it a unique string based on my hardware based on a certain

Re: what is hostuuid, hostid (for)?

2008-07-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 04:26:21PM +0200, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: I just setup a new server with 7.0-RELEASE and saw the following lines for the fist time when booting the system: Setting hostuuid: 2231232f-4000--2333-aafbb88a88ca. Setting hostid: 0x89e3310b. What exactly are those