On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:49:20PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 02:23:20PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > Jaromil, > > > > this is currently managed by eudev in devuan and, IIRC, it is simply > > regenerated as a random ID at each boot. I guess it's still there > > because it is used by several things, including > > session-management-related stuff. We had a discussion on IRC with Mark > > (LeePen) about that several weeks ago, and IIRC we concluded that > > keeping it around but re-generating it at boot was the way to avoid > > breakage. > > Yes, elogind uses it. But I got upstream to take a patch which uses > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id as an alternative to /etc/machine-id. >
and, IIRC, also /var/lib/dbus/machine-id is re-generated at boot time. But we need to double-check. Thanks Mark KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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