Bug 3803

Summary: no 'hostid' command like on solaris.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Peter Jones <pjones>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version: 6.0CC: srevivo
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Description Peter Jones 1999-06-29 16:14:37 UTC 
#!/bin/bash
# this should be /usr/bin/hostid or somesuch.
# Copyright 1999 Peter Jones, <pjones> .
# GPL and all that good stuff apply.
(
idprom=`cat /proc/openprom/idprom`
echo $idprom|dd bs=1 skip=2 count=2
echo $idprom|dd bs=1 skip=27 count=6
echo
) 2>/dev/null
Comment 1 Jay Turner 1999-06-29 17:04:59 UTC 
Recommendation has been forwarded to package developer/maintainer.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-03 15:12:59 UTC 
Added to util-linux-2.9v-17 (finally:-). Thanks for the patch.