On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 06:38:32PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [cut]
> > > > 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 > $ ll bash: ll: command not found $ :P anyway: - /etc/hostid is defined in POSIX 2001 and POSIX 2008 (man gethostid) - /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id is randomly generated by the kernel at each boot (see drivers/char/random.c and kernel/sysctl.c in the kernel tree) - /var/lib/dbus/machine-id is used by dbus, and at the moment seems to not being re-generated at each boot (my recollection was wrong: we will fix it) - /etc/machine-id should be used only by systemd components. My2Cents 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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