[baylisa] Re: wtf: hostid gives '0' as a hostid

Mon Feb 18 17:51:21 PST 2008

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:22:26PM -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> If you dmidecode | hash_function > /etc/hostid once, when the machine is 
> installed, that seems pretty good to me.
> 
> -- Asheesh.

Only one problem with that -- the result returned by hostid will be only 8
hex digits long.  If you're going to go by that, then what's so wrong with
using the IP address the way that hostid does?

-Phil/CERisE