Generating a random hostname

[Greg Larkin]

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Peter Steele wrote:
> Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We have a template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after the template is closed. It would be useful to have a hostname generated randomly.
> 

Hi Peter,

You could use the security/makepasswd port like so:

# makepasswd --chars=8
xRVoqtQa

You can also constrain the characters used for the hostname with the
- --string option.

Hope that helps,
Greg
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