UUIDD(8)

NAME

uuidd - UUID generation daemon

SYNOPSIS

uuidd [-d] [-p pidfile] [-s socketpath] [-T timeout]
uuidd [-r|-t] [-n number] [-s socketpath]
uuidd -k

DESCRIPTION

The uuidd daemon is used by the UUID library to generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), especially time-based UUID's in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large numbers of threads trying to grab UUID's running on different CPU's.

OPTIONS

-d Run uuidd in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running

as a daemon.

-k If a currently uuidd daemon is running, kill it.

-n number

When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response of number UUID's.

-p pidfile

Specify the pathname where the pid file should be written. By default, the pid file is written to /var/run/uuidd/uuidd.pid.

-s socketpath

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.

-r Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and

request it to return a random-based UUID.

-t Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and

request it to return a time-based UUID.

-T timeout

Specify a timeout for uuidd. If specified, then uuidd will exit after timeout seconds of inactivity.

AUTHOR

The uuidd daemon was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.

AVAILABILITY

uuidd is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

SEE ALSO

libuuid(3), uuidgen(1)

Linux May 2009 UUIDD(8)