On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:02:18PM +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Probably the GUID is a bit of a red herring, since in the case there are > millions of boxes it will be a ton of work to maintain the database of > them and compare every log line against it, for limited hard > information. Why? Just running uuidgen -r once per install and saving it somewhere is good enough. > Because boxes will typically download specific updated > RPMs just the once, you can get an idea of the number of active boxes > just by filtering on packages that have been updated for a while. That's wrong assumption, many people use proxies to avoid downloading updates for each box again and again. Jakub
