The sad state of affairs with hostid and gethostid() on Linux is somehow
described in https://bugs.debian.org/595790 >. The zfs package
have a workaround creating /etc/hostid to make sure it do not change
every time dhclient update the IP address of the machine.
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Happy hacking
Petter
On 5/19/20 7:34 PM, Real Carbonneau wrote:
> For example, every clone of a Debian system has a UUID (eg command "dmidecode
> -t 1"), thus it would be simple to generate a new hostid (possibly keeping the
> old one backed up) when the system uuid has been observed to have changed.
The BIOS UUID is
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