Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:53:03
Message-Id: 20110623105003.GA3129@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ??? by justin
1 110623 justin wrote:
2 > On Thursday 23 Jun 2011 03:49:57 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 >> I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box.
4 >> I did a qfile for this and nothing was found.
5 >> What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems?
6 > dbus is creating this file during installation.
7 > http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/machine-id.html
8
9 Yes, mine dates from beginning installation of Gentoo on this box :
10
11 root:506 etc> ls -l machine-id
12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Oct 24 2007 machine-id
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