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Is this specific to Debian?
by givinguflac 3mo ago
Is this specific to Debian?
- tremon 3mo agohttps://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/machine-id.html https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/mach... https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-uuidgen.1.html https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-uuidgen.1.html
- cryo32 3mo agoFreeBSD has it as well.
- nickjj 3mo agoNope, but Debian does use systemd by default so it's there. I'm running Arch Linux and /etc/machine-id is present. There's also an optional /etc/machine-info file that could exist. It's not a part of systemd and won't be created by default. It's more of an informal way to have details about the system in 1 spot. It was more popular when provisioning bare metal servers but still has value in the cloud. You can have key / value pairs on who to contact, where it's located, what type of machine it is, etc..