On Nov 19, 2007 11:13 PM, David Kewley <kewley(a)gps.caltech.edu> wrote:
I noticed something similar many months ago, where my machine's
entry didn't
even have the right architecture. As I recall, I emailed the Smolt
maintainer, and he said it was probably a problem with the client-side UUID
generation not being random enough. As a result, multiple machines could
get the same UUID and so write to the same server database entry. That's
the last I heard about it.
That is in fact a possibility. It uses the output from
/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid to work. Is there a flaw with this
method that we know nothing about? Should we use another?
-Yaakov