Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Fabien Chaudier <fabien.chaudier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With the "SuSE install" /etc/hostid does not exist
I know hostid but how calculate the numeric value ?

Le vendredi 6 octobre 2006 00:16, Carl Hartung a écrit :
> Fabien,
>
> You need to check for a difference between the "SUSE install" and the
> Ghosted install in the file /etc/hostid
>
> Also, there are actually three commands pertaining to hostid:
>
> sethostid
> gethostid
> hostid
> (all require superuser permissions)
>
> Each has a man page, too. ;-)
>
> Again, my first action would be to inspect what difference exists between
> the /etc/hostid file created during the SUSE install and the Ghosted
> installations.
>
> I think I've run out of ideas, now. :-)
>
> Good luck!
>
> Carl