The only use I've ever had for hostid was to splay cronjobs of a large number of hosts in the same network, to prevent them hammering the same server all at once, i.e. make them sleep for 86400 seconds modular the hostid every day…
-- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "in all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. in all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential." -- oscar wilde
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