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From: kiely@lownlab.UUCP (James P. Kiely)
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Subject: hostid
Message-ID: <161@lownlab.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-May-86 11:24:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: lownlab.161
Posted: Fri May  9 11:24:08 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 11-May-86 03:47:19 EDT
Organization: Lown Cardiovascular Laboratory, Harvard University
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Keywords: hostid gethostid sethostid hostname gethostname sethostname

On all of the systems I have looked, "hostid" is not being set in /etc/rc.local.
What is the purpose of the ``hostid(1)'' and  ``{g,s}ethostid(2)'' calls?
The manual page for ``hostid(1)'' states that this is "... normally set to
the host's Internet address ... by giving a hexadecimal argument ...".
How do you convert an Internet address with multiple decimal points
into a hexadecimal number (or an int for ``sethostid(2)'') ?
Is this obsoleted by ``hostname(1)'', ``{g,s}ethostname(2)'' ?
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