Unique Identifier

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:57 -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:20 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Whats the most accepted way to create a unique identifier (key) for a
> > host?  Collisions are fine if they are rare.
> 
> What about the uuid package in extras?
> 
> $ uuid
> 7c098fe8-9053-11db-a2c8-001560c53ca8

Why not /usr/bin/uuidgen from e2fsprogs? :-)

Jeremy