Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?
Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>:
> Tom Allison wrote:
> > Richard Hartmann wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 19:04, Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> hostid - contained in the coreutils package.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, this id is either read from /etc/hostid or
> >> calculated from the IPv4 address which a gethostbyhostname_r(3)
> >> on the system's hostname returns. This means the id is not
> >> persistant.
> >
> > I've absolutely no idea what you are trying to do here or why.
> > I'm a little curious about that.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Here: I wrote this in the middle of this email:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> >
> > use strict;
> > use warnings;
> > use Time::HiRes qw[gettimeofday];
> > use Digest::MD5 qw[md5_hex];
> >
> > my $t = [gettimeofday];
> > my $h = md5_hex($t, rand());
> >
> > print "$h,\n";
>
> But take out the comma...
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