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Thanks. So at boot, one would run "erase-machine-id". Then create a random 30-character hexadecimal number. And then either set "the systemd.machine_id= kernel

• JdeBP 8y ago
  No. % system-control cat machine-id start:#!/bin/nosh start:true stop:#!/bin/nosh stop:envdir env stop:erase-machine-id run:#!/bin/nosh run:#Set up and tear down the machine ID run:envdir env run:setup-machine-id restart:#!/bin/sh restart:exec false # ignore script arguments %
  • mirimir 8y ago
    OK, thanks. So "setup-machine-id". Does that generate a value that's unrelated to any preexisting versions, analogs, etc? I ask because, when I deleted /etc/machine-id and ran "systemd-machine-id-setup", it generated a new machine-id by copying the D-Bus machine ID.