On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box. > I did a qfile for this and nothing was found. > > What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems? > > Best regards, > mcc
I don't know about removing /etc/machine-id, but if you are running Gnome be careful about /var/lib/dbus/machine-id as not having that one may cause Evolution to fail to open correctly. - Mark mark@c2stable ~ $ locate machine-id /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /etc/machine-id -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Apr 13 2010 /etc/machine-id mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /var/lib/dbus/machine-id -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Jun 19 06:55 /var/lib/dbus/machine-id mark@c2stable ~ $
