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UUIDD(8)		     System Administration		      UUIDD(8)

NAME
       uuidd - UUID generation daemon

SYNOPSIS
       uuidd [options]

DESCRIPTION
       The  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.

OPTIONS
       -d, --debug
	      Run uuidd in debugging mode.  This prevents uuidd	 from  running
	      as a daemon.

       -F, --no-fork
	      Do not daemonize using a double-fork.

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

       -n, --uuids number
	      When  issuing  a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk
	      response of number UUIDs.

       -P, --no-pid
	      Do not create a pid file.

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

       -q, --quiet
	      Suppress some failure messages.

       -r, --random
	      Test  uuidd  by  trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and
	      request it to return a random-based UUID.

       -S, --socket-activation
	      Do not create a socket but instead expect it to be  provided  by
	      the calling process.  This implies --no-fork and --no-pid.  This
	      option is intended to be used only with systemd(1).  It needs to
	      be enabled with a configure option.

       -s, --socket path
	      Make  uuidd  use	this  pathname for the unix-domain socket.  By
	      default, the pathname used is /run/uuidd/request.	  This	option
	      is primarily for debugging purposes, since the pathname is hard-
	      coded in the libuuid library.

       -T, --timeout number
	      Make uuidd exit after number seconds of inactivity.

       -t, --time
	      Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running  uuidd  daemon  and
	      request it to return a time-based UUID.

       -V, --version
	      Output version information and exit.

       -h, --help
	      Display help screen and exit.

EXAMPLE
       Start up a daemon, print 42 random keys, and then stop the daemon:

	      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

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

SEE ALSO
       uuid(3), uuidgen(1)

AVAILABILITY
       The  uuidd  daemon  is  part of the util-linux package and is available
       from the Linux Kernel  Archive  ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils
       /util-linux/⟩.

util-linux			   July 2014			      UUIDD(8)
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