How to change Hostid

[Edward]

Thomas Ellwanger wrote:

> Hello Experts,
> 
>  
> 
> i am running Redhat 9.0 in an vmware machine. after a system crash the
> hostid of my Redhat installation changes. Is there a possibility to change
> the new hostid to the old hostid.

You could save the hostid you want to keep with a simple 'hostid > 
hostid.txt' or something, then on startup of the PC check the hostid 
again to that saved hostid, then if it's different, use sethostid to 
revert back to the save value perhaps?

Regards,
Ed.