[opencms-dev] Re: why that MAC-address during installation?

[Naveen Sinha]

MAC address is required for generating the UUID of the resources.


 On 10/17/05, Tristan Tarrant <tristan.tarrant at dataforte.net> wrote:
>
> Christoph P. Kukulies writes:
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> > What I always wondered about: Why is it that does opencms wants
> > to know about the servers MAC address?
>
> It is used by the library used to generate UUIDs. The library also comes
> with a native .so or .dll so that it can automatically determine the MAC
> address without asking
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