From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 22:10:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0571065670 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:10:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from mail.locolomo.org (97.pool85-48-194.static.orange.es [85.48.194.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F8E8FC0C for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:10:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.local (ppp-93-104-95-136.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.95.136]) by mail.locolomo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 94FB41C0871 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:10:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4BA1534E.8070209@locolomo.org> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:10:22 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B27DFDA@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B27DFDA@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Generating a random hostname X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:10:26 -0000 On 17/03/10 23:06, Peter Steele wrote: > Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We have a template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after the template is closed. It would be useful to have a hostname generated randomly. uuidgen? this command may be used by / -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org