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 1QZekI-0000u7-PS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:54:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 330D11C016; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:51:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF35E1C016 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:51:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.139] (helo=smtp8.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZehS-0006v5-0D for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:51:42 +0200 Received: from 5353c717.cm-6-4d.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.83.199.23] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp8.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZehP-0004rs-Lw for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:51:39 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E680B29F5 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:51:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6W0yQwro1K3d for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:51:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 26F604BC for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:51:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ??? Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:51:38 +0200 Message-ID: <2918729.eWlJ1q6N5V@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110623024957.GF20378@solfire> References: <20110623024957.GF20378@solfire> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QZehP-0004rs-Lw X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.851, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, TW_QF 0.08, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2723666980f9acefda312f1d58605d11 On Thursday 23 June 2011 04:49:57 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > 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? > > Best regards, > mcc I don't have that file on any of my machines, however, a quick google reveals this may be related to dbus: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2011-March/014188.html Maybe someone else can shed some more light on this? -- Joost