On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 19:04, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  hostid - contained in the coreutils package.

Unfortunately, this id is either read from /etc/hostid or calculated
from the IPv4 address which a gethostbyhostname_r(3) on the
system's hostname returns.
This means the id is not persistant.

Thanks though,
Richard


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