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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

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