Re: [Evolution] Automated Configuration of Evolution Accounts

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

It should also follow an rfc822 email-address format.  i.e. local domain 

Otherwise, it can be any string, it doesn't have to be the hostname/time, it just needs to be unique for that user.

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 08:55 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 21:29 +0800, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have managed to automate most of my Evolution account setup using
> > gconftool-2 and sed.  My problem at the moment is the generation of the
> > uid value in the account string shown below.
> > 
> > uid="1103529217 8931 0 vserver"
> > 
> > The first value appears to be the time the account was created in
> > seconds since 1/1/1970 and can be obtained using date +"%s".  The last
> > value is obviously the hostname the account was created on (should it be
> > hostname domain?).  I was wondering what the other values in the string
> > are and how they are generated?
>
> The uid just needs to be unique or a 1 in a trillion duplicate shot
> anyhow.  The algorithm we use is iso time, pid, gid, ppid, a serial
> number for the the program's run and the hostname.
>
> -JP