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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!hades.rz.uni-sb.de!news.coli.uni-sb.de!fu-berlin.de!axl.dialup.fu-berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: thimm@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: standalone PC and hostid Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 15:55:46 GMT Organization: FU Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4n7m12$rua@fu-berlin.de> Reply-To: thimm@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de NNTP-Posting-Host: axl.dialup.fu-berlin.de (160.45.218.93) X-Access: 16 17 19 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hello, what hostid should a standalone PC have? sysctl gives me 0 for the hostid, in hosts there is a hostid different from 0 for my hostname. What is the correct configuration? (BTW the system is not installed from scratch, but from another freebsd box, so some configs may be wrong, but I wouldn't know which). Please email me, if possible. Many thanks, Axel.