X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd-machine-id-setup.xml;fp=man%2Fsystemd-machine-id-setup.xml;h=49b92f689135ca438ab93da4adc25015c309d934;hb=44f44a29cc1346c0783d679374ce98d81bf6400c;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=9aac0b2c19c558b853da7a6d67a0929b2d44dee4;p=elogind.git diff --git a/man/systemd-machine-id-setup.xml b/man/systemd-machine-id-setup.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..49b92f689 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/systemd-machine-id-setup.xml @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ + + + + + + + + + systemd-machine-id-setup + systemd + + + + Developer + Lennart + Poettering + lennart@poettering.net + + + + + + systemd-machine-id-setup + 1 + + + + systemd-machine-id-setup + Initialize the machine ID in /etc/machine-id + + + + + systemd-machine-id-setup + + + + + Description + + systemd-machine-id-setup may + be used by system installer tools to initialize the + machine ID stored in + /etc/machine-id at install time + with a randomly generated ID. See + machine-id5 + for more information about this file. + + This tool will execute no operation if + /etc/machine-id is already + initialized. + + If a valid D-Bus machine ID is already + configured for the system the D-Bus machine ID is + copied and used to initialize the machine ID in + /etc/machine-id. + + If run inside a KVM virtual machine and a UUID + is passed via the option this + UUID is used to initialize the machine ID instead of a + randomly generated one. The caller must ensure that the + UUID passed is sufficiently unique and is different + for every booted instanced of the VM. + + Similar, if run inside a Linux container + environment and a UUID is set for the container this + is used to initialize the machine ID. For details see + the documentation of the Container + Interface. + + + + + Options + + This tool does not take any options or arguments. + + + + Exit status + + On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure + code otherwise. + + + + See Also + + systemd1, + machine-id5, + dbus-uuidgen1 + + + +