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Re: [SLE] Suse 10.1 and hostid
  • From: Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:33:01 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <200610051632.51728.suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:18, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what use does the hostid have?

My guess: the systems that Fabien works on at the moment run an application
("Maple 10") which requires each client to have a unique Host ID, like a
digital serial number. 'man hostid' :-)

regards,

Carl

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