Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:28:46 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Julien Gabel <julien.gabel@thilelli.net> Cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Host ID. Message-ID: <20070407202846.GK90410@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <e47373630704070821u224f03d7q505e01a2e967f777@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070407120656.GD63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <cb5206420704070607j7afe5349r180151dac1ec3e92@mail.gmail.com> <20070407145154.GG63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <cb5206420704070808t183dd708v489564d27c0d34dc@mail.gmail.com> <e47373630704070821u224f03d7q505e01a2e967f777@mail.gmail.com>
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--9RxwyT9MtfFuvYYZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:21:25PM +0200, Julien Gabel wrote: > >There's even a business [1] selling software to change > >Solaris hostid for ?49. Should I squat freebsdhostid.com? :) > > > >[1] http://www.solarishostid.com/ >=20 > For free, you generally can fake it by rewriting the gethostid > function along with the use > of ${LD_PRELOAD}; or use DTrace if using a Solaris 10 system :) While thinking along these lines, what will we do on sparc64 systems, which will generally print a hostid on the console at boot time which will be significantly different to the one that we'll be presenting within FreeBSD on those systems? I suspect that this is just a documentation issue, but it would be somewhat confusing. Ceri --=20 That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --9RxwyT9MtfFuvYYZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGF/7+ocfcwTS3JF8RAglhAJ9DONomyCo8fvgH2bWqZcNwCjVF4ACgvo/t t2S+/Z9zlebfogw2NISzSH4= =ADmr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9RxwyT9MtfFuvYYZ--
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