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5eef597e 22 <a href="../libudev/index.html">gudev </a><span style="float:right">systemd 217</span><hr><div class="refentry"><a name="systemd-machine-id-setup"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>systemd-machine-id-setup — Initialize the machine ID in /etc/machine-id</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">systemd-machine-id-setup</code> </p></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm214171951712"></a><h2 id="Description">Description<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Description">¶</a></h2><p><span class="command"><strong>systemd-machine-id-setup</strong></span> may
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23 be used by system installer tools to initialize the
24 machine ID stored in
25 <code class="filename">/etc/machine-id</code> at install time
26 with a randomly generated ID. See
27 <a href="machine-id.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">machine-id</span>(5)</span></a>
28 for more information about this file.</p><p>This tool will execute no operation if
29 <code class="filename">/etc/machine-id</code> is already
30 initialized.</p><p>If a valid D-Bus machine ID is already
14228c0d 31 configured for the system, the D-Bus machine ID is
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32 copied and used to initialize the machine ID in
33 <code class="filename">/etc/machine-id</code>.</p><p>If run inside a KVM virtual machine and a UUID
14228c0d 34 is passed via the <code class="option">-uuid</code> option, this
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35 UUID is used to initialize the machine ID instead of a
36 randomly generated one. The caller must ensure that the
37 UUID passed is sufficiently unique and is different
5eef597e 38 for every booted instanced of the VM.</p><p>Similar, if run inside a Linux container
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39 environment and a UUID is set for the container this
40 is used to initialize the machine ID. For details see
41 the documentation of the <a class="ulink" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ContainerInterface" target="_top">Container
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42 Interface</a>.</p><p>Use
43 <a href="systemd-firstboot.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd-firstboot</span>(1)</span></a>
44 to initialize the machine ID on mounted (but not
45 booted) system images.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm214171942352"></a><h2 id="Options">Options<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Options">¶</a></h2><p>The following options are understood:</p><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt id="--root=root"><span class="term"><code class="option">--root=<em class="replaceable"><code>root</code></em></code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#--root=root">¶</a></dt><dd><p>Takes a directory path
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46 as an argument. All paths will be
47 prefixed with the given alternate
48 <em class="replaceable"><code>root</code></em> path,
49 including config search paths.
50 </p></dd><dt id="-h"><span class="term"><code class="option">-h</code>, </span><span class="term"><code class="option">--help</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#-h">¶</a></dt><dd><p><a name="help-text"></a>Print a short help text and exit.
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51 </p></dd><dt id="--version"><span class="term"><code class="option">--version</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#--version">¶</a></dt><dd><p><a name="version-text"></a>Print a short version string and exit.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm214175837872"></a><h2 id="Exit status">Exit status<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Exit%20status">¶</a></h2><p>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
52 code otherwise.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm214175836592"></a><h2 id="See Also">See Also<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#See%20Also">¶</a></h2><p>
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53 <a href="systemd.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd</span>(1)</span></a>,
54 <a href="machine-id.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">machine-id</span>(5)</span></a>,
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55 <a href="dbus-uuidgen.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">dbus-uuidgen</span>(1)</span></a>,
56 <a href="systemd-firstboot.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd-firstboot</span>(1)</span></a>
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