From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:50:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110623105003.GA3129@ca.inter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E02EBE2.8020306@gentoo.org>
110623 justin wrote:
> On Thursday 23 Jun 2011 03:49:57 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>> I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box.
>> I did a qfile for this and nothing was found.
>> What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems?
> dbus is creating this file during installation.
> http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/machine-id.html
Yes, mine dates from beginning installation of Gentoo on this box :
root:506 etc> ls -l machine-id
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Oct 24 2007 machine-id
--
========================,,============================================
SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb
ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto
TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-23 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-23 2:49 [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ??? meino.cramer
2011-06-23 5:54 ` Mick
2011-06-23 7:31 ` justin
2011-06-23 10:50 ` Philip Webb [this message]
2011-06-23 7:51 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-06-23 22:30 ` meino.cramer
2011-06-24 13:37 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-06-25 13:05 ` Mark Knecht
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