Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:16:29 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ... Message-ID: <20060809151629.43741c35.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <44DA299C.8080801@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20060807003815.C7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060808102819.GB64879@augusta.de> <20060808153921.V7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D8EC98.8020801@utdallas.edu> <20060808201359.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D91F02.90107@mawer.org> <20060808212719.L7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060809072313.GA19441@sysadm.stc> <ef10de9a0608090341l696b6ea3s2187f4b0a9b5fa6e@mail.gmail.com> <20060809105404.GC19441@sysadm.stc> <44DA0715.1020507@utdallas.edu> <20060809130634.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44DA0DDF.40300@thingy.com> <20060809134007.U7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44DA1502.2040803@thingy.com> <20060809142006.F7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44DA299C.8080801@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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In response to Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>: > This problem is intractable: any scheme you can think of to generate a > unique identifying number on a random host out there on the net will either > fail to actually be unique, or suffer from mutating over time as machine > configuration changes. Really? What if you just generate some sort of UID or GUID and store it in /var/db/bsdstats.guid (or similar)? If the file exists, use it, if it doesn't exist, generate a new ID. Not 100% error prone, but should be pretty damn reliable. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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