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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:05:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=mbDyOkf+tY=BS65v-zLQH0ocgAg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110623024957.GF20378@solfire>

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:49 PM,  <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 know about removing /etc/machine-id, but if you are running
Gnome be careful about /var/lib/dbus/machine-id as not having that one
may cause Evolution to fail to open correctly.

- Mark

mark@c2stable ~ $ locate machine-id
/etc/machine-id
/var/lib/dbus/machine-id
mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /etc/machine-id
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Apr 13  2010 /etc/machine-id
mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Jun 19 06:55 /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
mark@c2stable ~ $



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-25 13:06 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
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 [this message]

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