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- Subject: HOSTID fun
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.154841.26732@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: eer1@midway.uchicago.edu(Paul Woods)
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:48:41 GMT
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- According to the man page on "hostid", the hostid can be changed. so why when
- I try to change it, it tells me that it does not want to let me. Is it truly
- possible to change it? I thought that it was.
-
-
- Thanks,
-
- Paul-
-
- Here is the Man and the response I get from the command:
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-
- noproblem> man hostid
-
- HOSTID(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual HOSTID(1)
-
- NAME
- hostid - set or print identifier of current host system
-
- SYNOPSIS
- hostid [ identifier ]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- The hostid command prints the identifier of the current host
- in hexadecimal. This numeric value is expected to be unique
- across all hosts and is commonly set to the host's Internet
- address.
-
- SEE ALSO
- gethostid(2)
-
- noproblem> hostid 0x100fbf0
- sethostid: Invalid argument
- noproblem>
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- ____________________________________
- Paul R. Woods
- University of Chicago
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