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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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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 ~ $