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From: Paul Woods
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:48

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According to the man page on "hostid", the hostid can be changed.  so why when  
I try to change it, it tells me that it does not want to let me.  Is it truly  
possible to change it?  I thought that it was. 


Thanks,

Paul-

 Here is the Man and the response I get from the command:

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noproblem> man hostid

HOSTID(1)           UNIX Programmer's Manual            HOSTID(1)

NAME
     hostid - set or print identifier of current host system

SYNOPSIS
     hostid [ identifier ]

DESCRIPTION
     The hostid command prints the identifier of the current host
     in hexadecimal.  This numeric value is expected to be unique
     across all hosts and is commonly set to the host's Internet
     address.

SEE ALSO
     gethostid(2)

noproblem> hostid 0x100fbf0
sethostid: Invalid argument
noproblem> 

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	Paul R. Woods
     University of Chicago

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