Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:44:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" <matthew.temple@lexis-nexis.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "MITZKA, JOHN (LNG)" <JOHN.MITZKA@lexis-nexis.com> Subject: Re: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility Message-ID: <20000524144409.E15434@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1E1@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com>; from "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" on Wed May 24 15:36:58 GMT 2000 References: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1E1@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com>
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In the last episode (May 24), TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG) said: > Ok...SunOS 5.5.1 does have a uuidgen and Linux's uuidgen does not > simply spit out a random string. Included below is an excerpt from > the Linux man page for uuidgen. I need to generate a GUID of > comparable quality on a FreeBSD web server. Does anyone on this list > know if FreeBSD has equivalent functionality or, if not, where I > might find source code for a uuidgen utility? I quote your excerpt: > time-based UUID's and random-based UUID's. By default > uuidgen will generate a random-based UUID if a high-qual! > ity random number generator is present. Otherwise, it On Linux, /dev/random is the random number generator and is always present. So my 'jot' line is the equivalent. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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