Host ID.

[Ceri Davies]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:31:30PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:28:46PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:21:25PM +0200, Julien Gabel wrote:
> > > >There's even a business [1] selling software to change
> > > >Solaris hostid for ?49. Should I squat freebsdhostid.com? :)
> > > >
> > > >[1] http://www.solarishostid.com/
> > > 
> > > For free, you generally can fake it by rewriting the gethostid
> > > function along with the use
> > > of ${LD_PRELOAD}; or use DTrace if using a Solaris 10 system :)
> > 
> > While thinking along these lines, what will we do on sparc64 systems,
> > which will generally print a hostid on the console at boot time which
> > will be significantly different to the one that we'll be presenting
> > within FreeBSD on those systems?
> > 
> > I suspect that this is just a documentation issue, but it would be
> > somewhat confusing.
> 
> Presumably on systems that have a real host id we can just use that :)

I thought that, but then Pawwel said he'd like it to work the same
across all systems; quite what that means is where the rub lies :)

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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