The manpage for hostid explicitely references coreutils.info but there the
part about hostid seems to have been removed somewhen in the past. As there
is no mentioning of a removal in ChangeLog I created the attached patch that
readds the documentation for hostid and hostname that I took from the
5.93 coreutils.texi .
Philipp
The documentation for hostname and hostid was missing from
coreutils 8.10 texinfo documentation. While not documenting hostname
could be argued, the man page of hostid directly refers to the
non-existing texinfo documentation.
Index: doc/coreutils.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/coreutils.texi.orig 2011-04-01 13:46:18.000000000 +0200
+++ doc/coreutils.texi 2011-04-01 14:08:23.423850965 +0200
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
* fold: (coreutils)fold invocation. Wrap long input lines.
* groups: (coreutils)groups invocation. Print group names a user is in.
* head: (coreutils)head invocation. Output the first part of files.
+* hostid: (coreutils)hostid invocation. Print numeric host identifier.
* id: (coreutils)id invocation. Print user identity.
* install: (coreutils)install invocation. Copy and change attributes.
* join: (coreutils)join invocation. Join lines on a common field.
@@ -195,7 +196,7 @@ Free Documentation License''.
* File name manipulation:: dirname basename pathchk mktemp
* Working context:: pwd stty printenv tty
* User information:: id logname whoami groups users who
-* System context:: date arch nproc uname uptime
+* System context:: date arch nproc uname uptime hostname hostid
* SELinux context:: chcon runcon
* Modified command invocation:: chroot env nice nohup stdbuf su timeout
* Process control:: kill
@@ -413,6 +414,8 @@ System context
* nproc invocation:: Print the number of processors
* uname invocation:: Print system information
* uptime invocation:: Print system uptime and load
+* hostname invocation:: Print or set system name
+* hostid invocation:: Print numeric host identifier.
@command{date}: Print or set system date and time
@@ -13758,6 +13761,8 @@ information.
* nproc invocation:: Print the number of processors.
* uname invocation:: Print system information.
* uptime invocation:: Print system uptime and load.
+* hostname invocation:: Print or set system name.
+* hostid invocation:: Print numeric host identifier.
@end menu
@node date invocation
@@ -14610,6 +14615,55 @@ also include processes in the uninterrup
those processes which are waiting for disk I/O). The Linux kernel
includes uninterruptible processes.
+@node hostname invocation
+@section @command{hostname}: Print or set system name
+
+@pindex hostname
+@cindex setting the hostname
+@cindex printing the hostname
+@cindex system name, printing
+@cindex appropriate privileges
+
+With no arguments, @command{hostname} prints the name of the current host
+system. With one argument, it sets the current host name to the
+specified string. You must have appropriate privileges to set the host
+name. Synopsis:
+
+@example
+hostname [@var{name}]
+@end example
+
+The only options are @option{--help} and @option{--version}. @xref{Common
+options}.
+
+@exitstatus
+
+
+@node hostid invocation
+@section @command{hostid}: Print numeric host identifier.
+
+@pindex hostid
+@cindex printing the host identifier
+
+@command{hostid} prints the numeric identifier of the current host
+in hexadecimal. This command accepts no arguments.
+The only options are @option{--help} and @option{--version}.
+@xref{Common options}.
+
+For example, here's what it prints on one system I use:
+
+@example
+$ hostid
+1bac013d
+@end example
+
+On that system, the 32-bit quantity happens to be closely
+related to the system's Internet address, but that isn't always
+the case.
+
+@exitstatus
+
+
@node SELinux context
@chapter SELinux context
