Re: 00000000 hostid?

[James Youngman]

On 4/19/07, Rohit Priyadarshi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am getting 00000000 as hostid. When I had purchased some software, it
> was okay for some time, but It has recently stopped working. The hostid
> is now printing as 00000000. I have been keeping my Fedora core 6
> up-to-date. Please help. I don't see any documentation on this utility.

hostid returns the result of gethostid(2).  You could read the
documentation for that.   But briefly, on the system I am using here,
it consults /etc/hostid if that is present, and if it is not it uses
an IP address of the machine on which you run the command.

James.