In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote: > > Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: > > > > These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont know > > where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ... > > > > I would like to know what is the hostid of a computer. Where does > > it come from ? > > Linux doesn't have a hostid. Sun workstations have a hostid. It is a > 32-bit number which is guaranteed to be unique on a Sun and is contained > in a EPROM on the mainboard. Sun uses this number for various things > (like using it to create a licensing key when a license is for a > single-use, single-machine piece of software).
Umm.... llug:~> uname -a Linux llug 2.0.30 #2 Sun May 18 00:47:52 EDT 1997 i586 unknown llug:~> hostid 0xc782f032 llug:~> Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Great successes are built on taking your negatives and turning them around." -- Sumner Redstone ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
