cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d hostid

[Mike Makonnen]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:22:44AM +0000, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> rse         2007-05-21 08:22:44 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc/rc.d             hostid 
>   Log:
>   The standardized textual representation of UUIDs according to RFC 4122
>   and ISO/IEC-9834-8:2005 is with LOWER-CASE hexadecimal characters only,
>   so translate the (usually upper-case and this way not conforming)
>   representation of the BIOS UUID when reading it. Also be more strict
>   about the valid characters in the textual representation by checking for
>   just the hexadecimal characters.

tr(1) lives in /usr/bin, which may not be available when / (root) is
mounted (it may live on a remotely mounted filesystem, for example). So,
you can't rely on tr(1) being available when this script is run.

Cheers.
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