Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:56:42 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d hostid Message-ID: <4652E88A.9080500@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <86myzygda0.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200705211144.l4LBiEHY098477@repoman.freebsd.org> <200705211422.47842.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <86r6pagfic.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200705211548.46790.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <86myzygda0.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On 05/21/07 14:57, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> writes: >> 'smbios.system.uuid' is exported from loader, not from kernel. And it >> already checks two things, i.e., all zero's and all 0xff's, which are >> the most common and 'useless' UUIDs. If the SMBIOS has one of these, >> it is not set at all. > > Is it safe to assume that smbios.system.uuid returns a string of the > correct form (the correct amount of hex digits with hyphens in the right > places) which is neither all-bits-zero nor all-bits-one? In that case, > there is no need to check anything in etc/rc.d/hostid. > > DES [picking random related post to reply to] The hostid script also is cranky when used on a diskless host, because it can't write to it's hostid file. I've been ignoring it, but I wanted to at least mention it. Shall I file a PR? Eric
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