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.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\" Copyright 2007 by Theodore Ts'o. All Rights Reserved.
.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
.\"
.TH UUIDD 8 "June 2011" "util-linux" "System Administration"
.SH NAME
uuidd \- UUID generation daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B uuidd
.RI [ options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B uuidd
daemon is used by the UUID library to generate
universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), especially time-based UUIDs,
in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large
numbers of threads running on different CPUs trying to grab UUIDs.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-d
Run uuidd in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon.
.TP
.BR \-h , " \-\-help "
Display help screen and exit.
.TP
.BR \-k , " \-\-kill "
If currently a uuidd daemon is running, kill it.
.TP
.BR \-n , " \-\-uuids " \fInumber\fR
When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response
of
.I number
UUIDs.
.TP
.BR \-p , " \-\-pid " \fIpath\fR
Specify the pathname where the pid file should be written. By default,
the pid file is written to /var/run/uuidd/uuidd.pid.
.TP
.B \-q
Suppress some failure messages.
.TP
.BR \-r , " \-\-random "
Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and
request it to return a random-based UUID.
.TP
.BR \-s , " \-\-socket " \fIpath\fR
Specify the pathname used for the unix-domain socket used by uuidd. By
default, the pathname used is /var/run/uuidd/request. This is primarily
for debugging purposes, since the pathname is hard-coded in the libuuid
library.
.TP
.BR \-T , " \-\-timeout " \fItimeout\fR
Specify a timeout for uuidd. If specified, then uuidd will exit after
.I timeout
seconds of inactivity.
.TP
.BR \-t , " \-\-time "
Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and
request it to return a time-based UUID.
.TP
.BR \-V , " \-\-version "
Output version information and exit.
.SH EXAMPLE
Start up a daemon, print 42 random keys, and then stop the daemon.
.PP
.RS
.nf
uuidd -p /tmp/uuidd.pid -s /tmp/uuidd.socket
uuidd -d -r -n 42 -s /tmp/uuidd.socket
uuidd -d -k -s /tmp/uuidd.socket
.nf
.RE
.SH AUTHOR
The
.B uuidd
daemon was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.
.SH AVAILABILITY
The uuidd daemon is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR uuid (3),
.BR uuidgen (1)
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