[rhelv6-list] what does hostid return?
Orion Poplawski
orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri Apr 4 14:45:55 UTC 2014
On 04/04/2014 08:34 AM, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A software vendor asked me to provide a hostid for a software license.
>
> I typed in hostid, got an eight digit hexadecimal number and emailed it to them.
>
> However, they were looking for a 12 digit hex number.
>
> I sent them the hardware address of eth0.
>
> My question is: how is the hostid number obtained? Is it from a disk drive,
> or some other hardware. I could not find information online.
There is no single "hostid", it is entirely dependent on the software in
question. The software vendor should provide instructions on how to obtain it.
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