On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 02:28:10PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
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> > >
> > > I wonder... is it a "fixed" id for all Devuan installation as it seems to
> > > be?
> > >
> > > And if it is so,is it correct that it is?
> >
> > How intriguing!
>
> I get the same value on a Debian Wheezy machine...
>
As pointed out elsewhere:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c
hence, unless any root process has called sethostid, we should all get
the same number ;)
HND
KatolaZ
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