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GENHOSTID(1) General Commands Manual GENHOSTID(1)

NAME

genhostid - generate and set a hostid for the current host

SYNOPSIS

genhostid

DESCRIPTION

genhostid generates a random hostid and stores it in /etc/hostid, if /etc/hostid does not already exist.

SEE ALSO

hostid(1), gethostid(2), sethostid(2)