kiely@lownlab.UUCP (James P. Kiely) (05/09/86)
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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