How is a hostid generated?

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Issue

  • How is a hostid generated?
  • How do I generate a new hostid?
  • When I issue the hostid command it returns 0's. How can I generate a new hostid?

    # hostid
    00000000
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • initscripts package

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