[ILUG] changing hostid in linux 7.2

Daniel Shaw dshaw78 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 13 23:04:13 GMT 2006


On 13/12/06, Conor Wynne <conor at discuskeeping.com> wrote:
> My "bad" as Americans say, I misread your post :
>
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man2/sethostid.2.html
>
> Sethostid my friend. And, no experience with it, but looks good non?

Coooool! :-)

# cat /etc/hostid
1234

# hostid
34333231


Nice one Conor! /etc/hostid just overides everything. Very nice.



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