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 1Qa6cg-0005n9-DB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:40:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81B6E1C0F6; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:37:15 +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 357B01C0F6 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.149] (helo=smtp17.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qa6ZO-000794-FH for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:37:14 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp17.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qa6ZN-0004gM-HZ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:37:13 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9CB2A58 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:37:16 +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 dHCXUZhSKc4P for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:37:15 +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 A07A4DF2 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:37:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ??? Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:37:12 +0200 Message-ID: <3404666.JtmPAIHfr2@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110623223043.GG20378@solfire> References: <20110623024957.GF20378@solfire> <2918729.eWlJ1q6N5V@eve> <20110623223043.GG20378@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: 1Qa6ZN-0004gM-HZ X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=1.048, vereist 5, BAYES_40 -0.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, TW_QF 0.08, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 72480a6f183157302a2218cbbf93eb7f On Friday 24 June 2011 00:30:43 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Joost Roeleveld [11-06-23 17:52]: > > 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 > > I dont like the idea of haveing something on my box, which make it > identificable or unique ... thinking of the diskussion of the use > and misuse of a CPU-ID. > Reading /dev/urandom instead is more what it should be in my opinion, > since that changes from boot to boot... > > Paranoia is your best friend.... ;-/ > > mcc "rm /etc/machine-id" right after the root-partition is remounted RW should solve that? :)