From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 7 20:35:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B2116A402; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 20:35:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc3-cdif2-0-0-cust64.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.106.128.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A5D13C4BF; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 20:35:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from ceri by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HaHd8-000GR1-0J; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:35:26 +0100 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:35:24 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20070407203524.GM90410@submonkey.net> References: <20070407120656.GD63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070407145154.GG63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070407202846.GK90410@submonkey.net> <20070407203130.GA8667@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Z/kiM2A+9acXa48/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070407203130.GA8667@xor.obsecurity.org> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: Ceri Davies Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek Subject: Re: Host ID. X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:35:29 -0000 --Z/kiM2A+9acXa48/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:31:30PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:28:46PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > 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 :) > >=20 > > 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? > >=20 > > I suspect that this is just a documentation issue, but it would be > > somewhat confusing. >=20 > Presumably on systems that have a real host id we can just use that :) I thought that, but then Pawwel said he'd like it to work the same across all systems; quite what that means is where the rub lies :) Ceri --=20 That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --Z/kiM2A+9acXa48/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGGACMocfcwTS3JF8RAgkgAJ9SnM1INAQmfaq/MpDjFXUfJINSVgCeMIy+ LVxYdBy4VY6pat4oRbK/t6o= =ikos -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Z/kiM2A+9acXa48/--