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Benno Schulenberg
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Karel Zak
13 years ago
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@@ -17,10 +17,32 @@ in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large
numbers of threads running on different CPUs trying to grab UUIDs.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-d
Run uuidd in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon.
.TP
.BR \-h , " \-\-help "
Display help screen and exit.
.TP
.BR \-k , " \-\-kill "
If currently a uuidd daemon is running, kill it.
.TP
.BR \-n , " \-\-uuids " \fInumber\fR
When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response
of
.I number
UUIDs.
.TP
.BR \-p , " \-\-pid " \fIpath\fR
Specify the pathname where the pid file should be written. By default,
the pid file is written to /var/run/uuidd/uuidd.pid.
.TP
.B \-q
Suppress some failure messages.
.TP
.BR \-r , " \-\-random "
Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and
request it to return a random-based UUID.
.TP
.BR \-s , " \-\-socket " \fIpath\fR
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
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.I timeout
seconds of inactivity.
.TP
.BR \-k , " \-\-kill "
If currently a uuidd daemon is running, kill it.
.TP
.BR \-r , " \-\-random "
Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and
request it to return a random-based UUID.
.TP
.BR \-t , " \-\-time "
Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and
request it to return a time-based UUID.
.TP
.BR \-n , " \-\-uuids " \fInumber\fR
When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response
of
.I number
UUIDs.
.TP
.B \-d
Run uuidd in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon.
.TP
.BI \-q
Suppress some failure messages.
.TP
.BR \-V , " \-\-version "
Output version information and exit.
.TP
.BR \-h , " \-\-help "
Display help screen and exit.
.SH EXAMPLE
Start up a daemon, print 42 random keys, and then stop the daemon.
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