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.\" Copyright 2007 by Theodore Ts'o. All Rights Reserved.
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.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
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.TH UUIDD 8 "May 2009" "Linux"
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uuidd \- UUID generation daemon
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daemon is used by the UUID library to generate
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universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), especially time-based UUID's
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in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large
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numbers of threads trying to grab UUID's running on different CPU's.
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in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon.
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If a currently uuidd daemon is running, kill it.
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When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response
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Specify the pathname where the pid file should be written. By default,
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the pid file is written to /var/run/uuidd/uuidd.pid.
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Specify the pathname used for the unix-domain socket used by uuidd. By
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default, the pathname used is /var/run/uuidd/request. This is primarily
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for debugging purposes, since the pathname is hard-coded in the libuuid
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Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and
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request it to return a random-based UUID.
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Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and
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request it to return a time-based UUID.
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Specify a timeout for uuidd. If specified, then uuidd will exit after
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seconds of inactivity.
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daemon was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.
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uuidd is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.