Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/hostid Tags: upstream
I have never come across a (Debian) system where /usr/bin/hostid didn't print 007f0101. That is because Debian uses /etc/hosts to map 127.0.1.1 to the hostname(s). Arguably, having a host UUID would be quite nice, but as there is no "one" IPv4 of a host, it's kinda useless to try to go that road. Unless hostid [well, gethostid()] can be replaced with something sensible, I suggest that it be removed from coreutils, or disabled, vandalised, or otherwise physically harmed. Btw, the info page says: the 32-bit quantity happens to be closely related to the system's Internet address, but that isn't always the case. and that's clearly wrong. Again, the days when a system had "an Internet address" are long gone, and apparently, it isn't even always the case. Feel free to reassign to glibc, where gethostid() comes from}. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-3 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.11.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@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
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