On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:20, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
