X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fmachine-id.xml;h=1e558a61783402e2afc2558adf3f5179706d9212;hp=6ca9990988af48df3921448880fa0e9247ff3871;hb=fbfa72b0a1276366d50dce223c06efe9db9d6585;hpb=8d41a963d66e54807e8b0fa69700107e39cf485a diff --git a/man/machine-id.xml b/man/machine-id.xml index 6ca999098..1e558a617 100644 --- a/man/machine-id.xml +++ b/man/machine-id.xml @@ -9,22 +9,22 @@ Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it - under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU - General Public License for more details. + Lesser General Public License for more details. - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with systemd; If not, see . --> - /etc/machine-id + machine-id systemd @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ machine-id - local machine ID configuration file + Local machine ID configuration file @@ -75,12 +75,17 @@ logic as the D-Bus machine ID. Programs may use this ID to identify the host - with a globally unique ID in the network, that does + with a globally unique ID in the network, which does not change even if the local network configuration changes. Due to this and its greater length it is a more useful replacement for the gethostid3 call POSIX specifies. + + The + systemd-machine-id-setup1 + tool may be used by installer tools to initialize the + machine ID at install time. @@ -127,10 +132,13 @@ id[8] = (id[8] & 0x3F) | 0x80; See Also systemd1, + systemd-machine-id-setup1, gethostid3, hostname5, machine-info5, - os-release5 + os-release5, + sd-id1283, + sd_id128_get_machine3