On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, der Mouse wrote:

> ...and someone was under the gun for a "we
> need it yesterday" deadline.  It proved to be a simple matter to add a
> sethostid() syscall to the kernel - and this was SunOS, a vendor
> binary-only kernel.  (No, I'm not giving out the code.  I don't think I
> even have a copy any longer.

You don't need to go even that far. The other day I hacked up a
little shared lib that you put in LD_PRELOAD under Solaris. It
reads a couple of environment variables and convinces the program
you're running that it's running on a machine with whatever hostname
and hostid you like. It can be different for each program, of course.

cjs
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