From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZhWx-0002eZ-EB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:53:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17AED1C06B; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:50:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay2e.uniserve.ca [216.113.195.59]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2991C06B for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:50:05 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=uniserve.com; s=2010; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=pH0pOD3GigC1HNBx+Pq/MZygVrv8Vm7kESrPuqO1a6s=; b=KyXJh0H5LuF4dwAWMLEhKfG174hZd4DUdvurIfPa6jB1rzSmvXem8NPHaq1HB3VQE0hvM5g4gjiQHPnpfAP5nlYL/Gt8sp3itOtV3tBKjBhQTXjWI4AGPN3+dyPNbPHi; Received: from ip-179.82.126.206.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([206.126.82.179] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QZhU3-000379-Uz for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:50:05 -0700 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:50:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:50:03 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ??? Message-ID: <20110623105003.GA3129@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20110623024957.GF20378@solfire> <201106230654.26271.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E02EBE2.8020306@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E02EBE2.8020306@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3d7660dcece2530ea6ed7aa0610dcb4b 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