Re: Host ID.

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:31:30PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:28:46PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:21:25PM +0200, Julien Gabel wrote:
There's even a business [1] selling software to change
Solaris hostid for ?49. Should I squat freebsdhostid.com? :)

[1] http://www.solarishostid.com/

For free, you generally can fake it by rewriting the gethostid
function along with the use
of ${LD_PRELOAD}; or use DTrace if using a Solaris 10 system :)

While thinking along these lines, what will we do on sparc64 systems,
which will generally print a hostid on the console at boot time which
will be significantly different to the one that we'll be presenting
within FreeBSD on those systems?

I suspect that this is just a documentation issue, but it would be
somewhat confusing.

Presumably on systems that have a real host id we can just use that :)

I thought that, but then Pawwel said he'd like it to work the same
across all systems; quite what that means is where the rub lies :)

Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere

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