Re: hostid probem in Compaq DS20-E server with Linux 7.2

[Jim Meyering]

> We are facing problem in hostid program. We have installed two DS20-E
> Compaq servers and Red hat Linux 7.2 (supplied by Compaq) to one of our
> customer. Output of hostid progarm is not appropriate. Output of hostid
> program in both servers is 7f0100. It should be 8 or 12 digit unique no. as
> this gives information of system identification.
> Please suggest us to solve this problem and send if some patch is there.

All the hostid program does is print a 32-bit identifier associated
with the current machine.  Normally, the identifier is related
to a machine's IP address, but that's not a requirement.
You can set it to whatever you want via the sethostid function call.