From: Rick Saylor (rsaylor@AUSTINCC.EDU)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 10:20:40 EDT
According to the man page for hostid it is set to the hostname by the
/etc/rc.net file. The restored system has the same hostname, so the hostid
would be the same. If you change the hostname and re-boot the hostid should
change.
Rick Saylor - Austin Community College
At 09:59 AM 5/1/03 -0400, you wrote:
>We are doing backup/restore test on out IBM P660 series. we use
>"mksysb" create system image and restore it to another P660 (exactly same
>model). After system bootup I type "hostid" on both computers and found
>output are the same. Why different computer have same hostid? Does their
>has unique system id in some where?
>
>Thanks.
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