X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fmachine-id.xml;h=d0bfbd240d75863864151884eb21ccefb3a44e47;hb=7fbf31dfe3cb2f9619df28258208eba36922e9d3;hp=fefeb66fd683ef92ba25f85d8a0b86545b14918e;hpb=d7ccca2e3f86feb81a48e243d8bad78814659a74;p=elogind.git diff --git a/man/machine-id.xml b/man/machine-id.xml index fefeb66fd..d0bfbd240 100644 --- a/man/machine-id.xml +++ b/man/machine-id.xml @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ random source during system installation and stays constant for all subsequent boots. Optionally, for stateless systems it is generated during runtime at - boot. + boot if it is found to be empty. The machine ID does not change based on user configuration, or when hardware is replaced. @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ with a globally unique ID in the network, that does not change even if the local network configuration changes. Due to this and its greater length it is - a more useful replacement than the + a more useful replacement for the gethostid3 call POSIX specifies. @@ -97,7 +97,9 @@ systemd1, gethostid3, - hostname5 + hostname5, + machine-info5, + os-release5