[PATCH] run uuidgen --ensure in the init script

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Thu Oct 19 08:16:45 PDT 2006



John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> Distros that run a session bus without a system bus will have to do it
> some other way but this covers both mainstream installed distros and
> stateless systems like livecds.  That is assuming a stateless system has
> a writable /etc.  If this is not the norm we should figure out a better
> place to put the machine-id file.
> 

This patch looks fine, I think we should go ahead and put the machine id 
in /var anyway but that won't affect this patch.

Havoc


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