From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 23:35:14 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 91CE0106566C for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:35:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pvdl@afu.com) Received: from smtpauth03.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpauth03.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 424178FC0A for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29367 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2010 23:08:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (99.30.228.107) by smtpauth03.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.183) with ESMTP; 17 Mar 2010 23:08:32 -0000 References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B27DFDA@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <20100317225004.GA16533@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <20100317225004.GA16533@slackbox.erewhon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Peter van der Linden Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:08:31 -0700 To: Roland Smith X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 23:35:14 -0000 On Mar 17, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > openssl rand -base64 18| sed 's|[^[:alpha:]]||g' That works very well. My first run included an impressive anglo-saxon = observation. To diminish agitating the night shift, I suppose you = could filter out all the vowels. Peter, emailing from what was nearly hostname wpFUCKOKSFRMIQyCfNBeU=