On Tuesday 29 March 2016 16:50:01 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 03:14:15PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> +# Create a machine-id with a random UUID
> +dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=16 status=none | od -x -A n | sed -e 's, ,,g'
> /etc/machine-id
Out of interest, why read single bytes, and not the whole 16 bytes in
one go?
Just habit :)
(It works the same with bs=16 count=1 of course -- did the change
locally.)
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Pino Toscano