0707f276-b14d-11e2-93a1-8c89a564960d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The value above (and this file) is created and used by the zc.async package. It is intended to uniquely identify this software instance when it is used to start a zc.async dispatcher. This allows multiple dispatchers, each in its own software instance, to connect to a single database to do work. In order to decide where to look for this file (or to create it, if necessary), the module looks in ``os.environ['ZC_ASYNC_UUID']`` for a file name. If you are using zdaemon (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zdaemon) to daemonize your process, you can set this in a zdaemon environment section of your zdaemon.conf. Supervisor (http://supervisord.org/) also provides this functionality. Other similar tools probably do as well. If the ``ZC_ASYNC_UUID`` is not found in the environment, it will use ``os.path.join(os.getgwd(), 'uuid.txt')`` as the file name. To get a new identifier for this software instance, delete this file, restart Python, and import zc.async.instanceuuid. This file will be recreated with a new value.