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networking.hostId: fix cmd in description #46495

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@erikarvstedt erikarvstedt commented Sep 10, 2018

Pad the hex literal with leading zeros to the required length of 8 bytes (32 bit).

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As /etc/machine-id is already a random, lower-case hex string, why not just use head -c 8 /etc/machine-id?

@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ in
You should try to make this ID unique among your machines. You can
generate a random 32-bit ID using the following commands:

<literal>cksum /etc/machine-id | while read c rest; do printf "%x" $c; done</literal>
<literal>cksum /etc/machine-id | while read c rest; do printf "%08x" $c; done</literal>
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I agree head -c 8 /etc/machine-id makes more sense.

1. Simplify the command by reading directly from /etc/machine-id which
is already a random, lower-case hex string
2. Previously, the command output could be too short because of missing
leading digits. This is now fixed.
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I've updated the patch to use head -c ...

@Mic92 Mic92 merged commit b60ddaf into NixOS:master Sep 11, 2018
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Mic92 commented Sep 11, 2018

backport: c1713a1

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