On 08.03.19 14:23, KatolaZ wrote: > this is currently managed by eudev in devuan and, IIRC, it is simply > regenerated as a random ID at each boot. I guess it's still there > because it is used by several things, including > session-management-related stuff. We had a discussion on IRC with Mark > (LeePen) about that several weeks ago, and IIRC we concluded that > keeping it around but re-generating it at boot was the way to avoid > breakage. > > Any thoughts on the matter are appreciated, but concrete insight on > the ins and outs are much more useful I guess (read: please let's > avoid a useless uninformed flame about that :P).
I would assume that the machine-id is used for: 1. Software Licencing 2. Identifying machines in a pool/swarm/cluster/cloud of machines where static IP adresses are not necessarily a given similar to HP/HP-UX: /bin/uname -i IBM/AIX: /bin/uname -m SGI/IRIX: /sbin/sysinfo -s Sun/Solaris: /usr/ucb/hostid machine-id should theoretical be a serial number or UUID Cheers Mike _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
