In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote: > > > > llug:~> uname -a > > Linux llug 2.0.30 #2 Sun May 18 00:47:52 EDT 1997 i586 unknown > > llug:~> hostid > > 0xc782f032 > > llug:~> > > > > So there is a debian command for it! Well, it doesn't come from hardware > in linux and isn't guaranteed to be unique, which is what this number > was intended to do. I believe DCE needs some number like this.
I'll have to look at the source to see what it actually does. I have yet to see a dupe. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things." -- John Logue ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .