[NTLUG:Discuss] Host ID

[Mark Bickel]

> From: Michael Patrick <michael at techiesplace.com>
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Host ID
> List-Archive: <http://www.ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:01:36 -0500

It's a Sun thing. Hostid is tied to ID PROM on Sparc motherboard.
Can't see how it would apply to PC architecture.

/Mark

# man gethostid

Standard C Library Functions                        gethostid(3C)

NAME
     gethostid - get unique identifier of current host

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     long gethostid(void);

DESCRIPTION
     The gethostid() function returns the 32-bit  identifier  for
     the  current  host, which should be unique across all hosts.
     This number is usually taken from the CPU board's ID PROM.

SEE ALSO
     hostid(1), sysinfo(2)

SunOS 5.8           Last change: 12 Feb 1993   
# man hostid

User Commands                                           hostid(1)

NAME
     hostid - print the numeric identifier of the current host

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/bin/hostid

DESCRIPTION
     The hostid command prints the identifier of the current host
     in  hexadecimal. This numeric value is likely to differ when
     hostid is run on a different machine.

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    | Availability                | SUNWcsu                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

SEE ALSO
     sysinfo(2), gethostid(3C), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.8           Last change: 14 Sep 1992  
 
> Hmmm... are you talking about   hostname?
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 02:00:56PM -0500, Daphne Martindell wrote:
> >   Does anyone knows of the linux command to get
> > the host id?  You can type "hostid" in Solaris
> > to get the host id.  The command "hostid"
> > does not work on linux.