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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers hostname in linux Post 24107 by noknok on Friday 5th of July 2002 03:41:18 AM
Old 07-05-2002
What's the difference between a HOSTNAME and HOSTID?

Hi All,

I am curious. What is the difference between the Hostname and Hostid?

What are the general ways of getting the hostid of a machine?
Are there ready commands?

What is the different usage of these 2?

Thanks,
noknok
 

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UUID_COMPARE(3) 						    Libuuid API 						   UUID_COMPARE(3)

NAME
uuid_compare - compare whether two UUIDs are the same SYNOPSIS
#include <uuid.h> int uuid_compare(uuid_t uu1, uuid_t uu2) DESCRIPTION
The uuid_compare function compares the two supplied uuid variables uu1 and uu2 to each other. RETURN VALUE
Returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if uu1 is found, respectively, to be lexicographically less than, equal, or greater than uu2. AUTHOR
Theodore Y. Ts'o AVAILABILITY
libuuid is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. SEE ALSO
uuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_unparse(3) util-linux May 2009 UUID_COMPARE(3)
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