Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:08:29PM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Does anyone know any users of /usr/bin/hostid? We have a custom one in the util-linux package but upstream coreutils contains a different implementation. Ours prints '0xnumber' while upstream only prints 'number'. Also ours allows to set the hostid and the man page refers to /etc/hostid. However, hostid doesn't actually read that file and there also doesn't seem to be an init script for it either. So I wonder whether we could safely switch to the coreutils version.
Hmmm ... the id its self seems to be calculated from the internet address accordingly to gethostid(2)
Beside this for a hexadecimal numbers I prefere 0x as it may happen that a hexadecimal number only consists of numerics between 0 and 9 but misses any numerics between A and F
Well, I agree but does our personal preference justify a suse solo effort? The output of hostid from coreutils might be weird but that's what everyone else uses. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org