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[ILUG] changing hostid in linux 7.2

[ILUG] changing hostid in linux 7.2

Daniel Shaw dshaw78 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 13 23:21:11 GMT 2006


> Ah, I misread your post.. Sorry.
>
> I believe you can use the sethostid command to do this, never tried though.
>

Heya again,

Nope, your second post had the answer. I missed it while writing my
post. 'sethostid' is a C call thingy, not a command, but you just have
to creat a /etc/hostid file. Easy.

It's in the link you sent. Walter should be good to go now.



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