On 10 Dec 2014, Josh Grosse wrote: > 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 > > :)
Thanks to both for replies and clarification. Anthony
