The hostid is used by several software licensing programs such as
flexlm, so it would be very handy to have it working.
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gethostid could do with trying to be uniquer
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hostid will either be useless (as it is now) or will change any time the
IP address changes (due to dhcp, etc). As such, it should not be used
to uniquely identify machines. Plenty of other things already create
relatively unique identifiers (e.g. filesystem & swap UUIDs), so an
additional mechan
Moving back to new since we still see this on Intrepid. (I see 007f0100)
** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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This still seems to be an issue on a clean install of intrepid.
$ hostid
007f0101
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid
$ grep $(hostname) /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1 dg-laptop
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any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? If you still have a
problem, please move
If this is an issue for anyone you can just comment out the line
referring to 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts. (Assuming you have working DNS.)
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** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Jeff Bailey => (unassigned)
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