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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:49 PM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box. |
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> I did a qfile for this and nothing was found. |
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> What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems? |
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> Best regards, |
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> mcc |
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I don't know about removing /etc/machine-id, but if you are running |
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Gnome be careful about /var/lib/dbus/machine-id as not having that one |
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may cause Evolution to fail to open correctly. |
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- Mark |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ locate machine-id |
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/etc/machine-id |
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/var/lib/dbus/machine-id |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /etc/machine-id |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Apr 13 2010 /etc/machine-id |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /var/lib/dbus/machine-id |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Jun 19 06:55 /var/lib/dbus/machine-id |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ |
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