what is hostuuid, hostid (for)?
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 component? CPU maybe? Is it something that could be determined under lets say Linux as well? I am asking because this could become handy as a unique identifier for a piece of equipment (for putting it on stock, re-using, inventory database, ...). Sandra ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is hostuuid, hostid (for)?
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 for? Is it a unique string based on my hardware based on a certain component? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID and /etc/rc.d/hostid. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpgOMW4x9OWV.pgp Description: PGP signature
