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[Chaudier Fabien <fabien.chaudier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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> 


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.