hostid gives identical values on all FC machines
Aleksandar Milivojevic
amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Wed Dec 15 14:45:58 UTC 2004
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> The primary (eth0 in Linux) that the machine shipped with (not so
> unreasonable for Suns), or that was installed at the time the license key
> was generated. An alternative might be a hard disk serial number, except
> that low-level system calls are probably needed in order to get it.
The only solution would be generating /etc/hostid during install. It
can be populated by last four bytes of eth0 (as detected during
install), or some randomly generated bytes (if there's no network
interfaces detected during install).
Of course, there's still problem what to return if user deletes
/etc/hostid file ;-)
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