On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2009-01-15 17:45 +0100, Brian McKee wrote: > >> I have a group of machines I was going to enroll in >> popularity-contest, but since they were created by cloning them via >> mondo-rescue, the UUID in /etc/popularity-contest.conf is all >> identical. I've looked at the FAQ and the README, as well as the man >> page and the website, and the only thing I've found is >> >> # This key was generated automatically so you should normally just >> # leave it alone. >> >> How do I create a new one? > > Look into /var/lib/dpkg/info/popularity-contest.postinst, the > generate_id() function shows you how to generate it. > > Deleting the MY_HOSTID line in /etc/popularity-contest.conf and running > "dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest" should also do the trick.
Thanks guys. Just deleting the MY_HOSTID line didn't work. Neither did just running dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest (I had tried that earlier). Looking at that postinst file you mentioned shows it matches the md5sum of a .conf file with a blank MY_HOSTID rather than just checking to see if it's there. So rather than mucking around making sure every space was in the right spot, I just deleted the whole /etc/popularity-contest.conf file THEN ran dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest. Tada! Thanks again, Brian PS and my guess was right - it does use uuid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
