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[Fabien Chaudier <fabien.chaudier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nobody had an idea ?
Le mercredi 4 octobre 2006 17:44, Chaudier Fabien a écrit :
> Selon stephan beal <stephan@xxxxxxxx>:
> > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 15:39, Fabien Chaudier wrote:
> > > Is it possible to have an unique host ID ?
> >
> > man hostid:
> >
> > NAME
> >        hostid - set or print system's host id.
> >
> > SYNTAX
> >        hostid [-v] [decimal-id]
> > DESCRIPTION
> >        The hostid command prints the current host id number in
> > hexadecimal and both decimal and hexadecimal in paren‐
> >        thesis if the -v option is given.  This numeric value is expected
> > to be unique across all hosts  and  is  nor‐
> >        mally set to resemble the host's Internet address.
> > ...
> >
> >
> > You can apparently set the id to whatever you want by calling hostid at
> > startup, but you must ensure that each host has a unique ID.
> >
> >
> > --
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> > of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
>
> I set the id by calling hostid is OK. Each time I reboot 2 time the PC and
> the host ID is always the same.
> But when I install Maple 10, at the end of installation I have the message
> : "Unable to determine the host ID of your system"
> The Maple install process may be use a different fonction of hostid.
>
> If I install SuSE 10.1 with the DVD on the same PC, I don't have the
> problem to install Maple 10.
> I used ghost on 32 PC and I don't want to reinstall all PCs with the DVD or
> via NFS.

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