hostid(1) General Commands Manual hostid(1) Name hostid - set or print identifier of current host system Syntax hostid [identifier] Description The command prints the identifier of the current host in hexadecimal. This numeric value is expected to be unique across all hosts and is normally set to the host's Internet address. The super-user can set the hostid by giving a hexadecimal argument. This is usually done in the startup script See Also gethostid(2), sethostid(2) hostid(1)