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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:32:12 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what is hostuuid, hostid (for)?
Message-ID:  <20080725153212.GA26601@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <91b92520807250726l41619be9k89689c113d2e3c9e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <91b92520807250726l41619be9k89689c113d2e3c9e@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 04:26:21PM +0200, Sandra Kachelmann wrote:
> I just setup a new server with 7.0-RELEASE and saw the following lines
> for the fist time when booting the system:
>=20
> Setting hostuuid: 2231232f-4000-aaaa-2333-aafbb88a88ca.
> Setting hostid: 0x89e3310b.
>=20
> What exactly are those for? Is it a unique string based on my hardware
> based on a certain component?=20

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID and /etc/rc.d/hostid.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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