On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 15:46:26 +0100, Dr. wrote in message <201903081546.27040.dr.kl...@gmx.at>:
> Anno domini 2019 Fri, 8 Mar 13:15:48 +0000 > Rowland Penny via Dng scripsit: > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:47:40 +0100 > > Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > re all, > > > > > > any thoughts about this new systemd-made thing that freedesktop > > > immediately "standardized" (whatever is their procedure for that, > > > likely smoking cigars among old-boys or so) > > > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html > > > > > > its easy to replace by a script of course that's not the problem > > > (the manpage suggests to use a systemd application for that, not > > > a joke!) but I'm curious if anyone has some background and > > > thoughts about this > > > > > > AFAIK chromium started checking it and its absence on Devuan > > > Beowulf is reported as an error, so we may have to work around > > > this. > > > > > > but first things first: do we want /etc/machine-id? and how? > > > > > > > I would have thought the first question is 'What is it used for ?' > > Surveillance, nothing else. IMO it would be nice to regenerate it > every time the file is read. ..my /etc/cron.d/machine-id: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin # ..a new /etc/machine-id every minute... ;o) * * * * * root date |md5sum |cut -d" " -f-1 >/etc/machine-id |tee >/dev/null 2>&1 ...keeps e.g. chromium from whining about: "[20478:20478:0307/101807.205617:ERROR:browser_dm_token_storage_linux.cc(101)] Error: /etc/machine-id contains 0 characters (32 were expected)" ..dunno too much about what else they use to track us though... ..those nefarious web browsers should run _only_once_, between the boot-up of the throw-away virtual machine it lives in, and the shut down and the throwing away of that throw-away virtual machine it lived in. > > I don't seem to have it and everything works without it. > > It's on my beowulf installations, and I didn't even know that it was > there :-/ ..quick starting point: ll /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id /etc/hostid /etc/machine-id \ /var/lib/dbus/machine-id /var/db/dbus/machine-id -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
