Thanks, figured it out!

Paul Finkel
AT&T CSO
732_420_3105


> _____________________________________________ 
> From: 	FINKEL, PAUL D (ATTSI)  
> Sent:	Monday, November 08, 2010 3:57 PM
> To:	'bug-coreutils@gnu.org'
> Subject:	hostid returns 00000000
> 
> These are both newly created VM servers running Red Hat 5_3 64 bit
> 
> output from `uname -a`:
> 
> Linux vmdbxx01 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 EST 2008
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux   
> 
> Paul Finkel
> AT&T CSO
> 732_420_3105
>