Smolt database is broken

[Yaakov Nemoy]

On Nov 19, 2007 11:13 PM, David Kewley <kewley at 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