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

Mon Feb 18 20:32:28 PST 2008

On Feb 18, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> My suggestion would be, if you want to go totally nuts, dmidecode |  
> md5sum.  So long as the hardware doesn't change, that'd be a pretty  
> good reference point.  (Bonus points for grep -v'ing out the RAM or  
> a few other volatile parts, I suppose.)

That's actually a pretty cool idea, particularly with regard to pulling
out the volatiles.

> If you dmidecode | hash_function > /etc/hostid once, when the  
> machine is installed, that seems pretty good to me.

Yeah, but if you've got the dmidecode function on the local system you
don't really need /etc/hostid any more.

-jeff