Anno domini 2019 Fri, 8 Mar 13:15:48 +0000
Rowland Penny via Dng scripsit:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:47:40 +0100
> Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
>
> >
> > re all,
> >
> > any thoughts about this new systemd-made thing that freedesktop
> > immediately "standardized" (whatever is their procedure for that,
> > likely smoking cigars among old-boys or so)
> > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html
> >
> > its easy to replace by a script of course that's not the problem (the
> > manpage suggests to use a systemd application for that, not a joke!)
> > but I'm curious if anyone has some background and thoughts about this
> >
> > AFAIK chromium started checking it and its absence on Devuan Beowulf
> > is reported as an error, so we may have to work around this.
> >
> > but first things first: do we want /etc/machine-id? and how?
> >
>
> I would have thought the first question is 'What is it used for ?'

Surveillance, nothing else. IMO it would be nice to regenerate it every time the file is read.

> 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 :-/

Nik

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