Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tom Allison wrote: > > Richard Hartmann wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 19:04, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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