On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:48:12PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >>> Here's the top 5: >>> >>> 266 28caf2c3-9766-4fe1-9e4c-d6b0ba8a0132 >>> 336 810e7126-1c69-4aff-b8b1-9db0fa8aa15a >>> 402 c8dbb9d3-a9bd-4ba6-b92e-4a294ba5a95f >>> 884 06e84493-e024-44b1-9b32-32d78af04039 >>> 931 e2b67e1d-e325-4740-b938-795addb45280 >>> >>> The left number is times this month someone has submitted a profile with >>> that UUID. If we take the last one as an example has come from over 800 >>> IP's in the last 20 days. It seems very unlikely that one person would >>> find his way to 800 different IP's this month. Let me know if you'd >>> like more. >>> > Background - Smolt runs this during its install: > > /bin/cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid > /etc/sysconfig/hw-uuid > > For most users this would be run by the RPM %post scripts during install > from anaconda. For some reason there are some UUID's (like those listed > above) that come up more often then it seems they should if they are truly > random.
Would this be by any chance using kickstart where there is no user interaction, and no way of gathering entropy during the install process? The random number generator isn't *magic* you know.... - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/