On 2014-12-10 09:02, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Whenever I upgrade to a new snapshot I receive these messages:
Remember to update /var/db/dbus/machine-id
Remember to update /etc/machine-id
I don't know how to do this and I couldn't find much about machine-id
on
the net and the OBSD faq doesn't mention it. There is a discussion on
the gentoo forum about it, in which posters express worry about it as a
security risk.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-961454-start-0.html
Can anyone shed light on this and say what, if anything, I should do?
Anthony
Anthony, I believe you're seeing messages from your x11/dbus package,
specifically, from dbus-uuidgen, which is run when you update the dbus
package.
The PLIST contains this instruction:
@exec ${PREFIX}/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure=${SYSCONFDIR}/machine-id
Luckily, its man page is also included in the package; the PLISTS
contains:
@man man/man1/dbus-uuidgen.1
:)
