From 0c627bdc66e6907c72ed15fcec82d2ed386acc3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:59:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] /etc/hostid is a binary file

---
 initialize-host-id | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/initialize-host-id b/initialize-host-id
index c45255d..74ece9d 100644
--- a/initialize-host-id
+++ b/initialize-host-id
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
 # Initialize /etc/hostid if it doesn't exist or is empty
 #
 if [ ! -f /etc/hostid -o "$(cat /etc/hostid 2>/dev/null)" = "" ]; then
-    hexdump -n 4 -e '"%02x"' /dev/urandom >/etc/hostid
+    dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4 count=1 of=/etc/hostid
 fi