On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 07:44:25AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > "hostid" tends to return a hexadecimal representation of the first > IPv4 address (but isn't guaranteed to).
unicorn:~$ hostid 007f0101 Doesn't look very useful. That's just 127.0.1.1 in a 16-bit little endian format. > On a systemd system one > could instead use /etc/machine-id. On Linux there is also > /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id (but needs dashes removed). > > Systemd timers can do this sort of thing themselves, so no need > there for this sort of scripting. You know what else works really well? Just putting a different start time in each system's crontab.
