Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:20, Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net> wrote:
> I've absolutely no idea what you are trying to do here or why. I'm a little
> curious about that.
I want to assign all hosts a unique id that is consistent across all
monitoring and accounting solutions.
The existance of VMs makes a simply solution like /etc/hostid
imossible to use.
> But if you are trying to find a unique id that isn't tied to hardware or
> pretty much anything else then why not just make one up.
Actually, I do want an ID that is unique and tied to the hardware.
> Here: I wrote this in the middle of this email:
I would simply do
uuidgen > /etc/hosts
if I could rely on IDs of that kind. Unfortunately, I can't :(
Richard
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