From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 11: 0:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lexis-nexis.com (mx02.lexis-nexis.com [207.25.178.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95DE237B743 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 11:00:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthew.temple@lexis-nexis.com) Received: from lexis-nexis.com (mailgate [138.12.44.45]) by lexis-nexis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13851; Wed, 24 May 2000 14:00:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com by lexis-nexis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15480; Wed, 24 May 2000 13:59:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 24 May 2000 13:58:29 -0400 Message-ID: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1D9@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com> From: "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" To: "'Dan Nelson'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:58:20 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I need a globally unique ID, like 28eea00e-a872-491e-8848-a9b8daf3314b. Linux and Solaris have a utility called uuidgen that spits them out. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Nelson [SMTP:dnelson@emsphone.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 1:42 PM > To: TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG) > Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: Re: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility > > In the last episode (May 24), TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG) said: > > Is there a uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility in FreeBSD? I don't > see > > anything on my web server called uuidgen? Do I have to make it myself? > Is > > it just called something different in FreeBSD? Any help will be > > appreciated. > > would jot do? you just need random numbers, or what? > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message