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systemd/man/systemd-machine-id-setup.xml
Lennart Poettering 4a9b1dd4ad machine-id-commit: merge machine-id-commit functionality into machine-id-setup
And remove machine-id-commit as separate binary.

There's really no point in keeping this separate, as the sources are
pretty much identical, and have pretty identical interfaces. Let's unify
this in one binary.

Given that machine-id-commit was a private binary of systemd (shipped in
/usr/lib/) removing the tool is not an API break.

While we are at it, improve the documentation of the command substantially.
2015-09-29 21:55:51 +02:00

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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*- Mode: nxml; nxml-child-indent: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-->
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<refentry id="systemd-machine-id-setup"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>systemd-machine-id-setup</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
<surname>Poettering</surname>
<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
</author>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Didier</firstname>
<surname>Roche</surname>
<email>didrocks@ubuntu.com</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-setup</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd-machine-id-setup</refname>
<refpurpose>Initialize the machine ID in /etc/machine-id</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command> may be used by
system installer tools to initialize the machine ID stored in
<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> at install time, with a
provisioned or randomly generated ID. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more information about this file.</para>
<para>If the tool is invoked without the <option>--commit</option>
switch <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> is initialized with a
valid, new machined ID if it is missing or empty. The new machine
ID will be acquired in the following fashion:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>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
<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>If run inside a KVM virtual machine and a UUID
is was configured (via the <option>-uuid</option>
option), this UUID is used to initialize the machine ID. The
caller must ensure that the UUID passed is sufficiently unique
and is different for every booted instance of the
VM.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Similar, if run inside a Linux container
environment and a UUID is configured for the container this is
used to initialize the machine ID. For details see the
documentation of the <ulink
url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ContainerInterface">Container
Interface</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Otherwise a new ID is randomly
generated.</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>The <option>--commit</option> switch may be used to commit a
transient machined ID to disk, making it persistent. For details,
see below.</para>
<para>Use
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
to initialize the machine ID on mounted (but not booted) system
images.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<para>The following options are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--root=<replaceable>root</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a directory path as argument. All paths
operated will be prefixed with the given alternate
<replaceable>root</replaceable> path, including the path for
<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> itself.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--commit</option></term>
<listitem><para>Commit a transient machine ID to disk. This
command may be used to convert a transient machine ID into a
persistent one. A transient machine ID file is one that was
bind mounted from a memory file system (usually
<literal>tmpfs</literal>) to
<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> during the early phase of
the boot process. This may happen because
<filename>/etc</filename> is initially read-only and was
missing a valid machine ID file at that point.</para>
<para>This command will execute no operation if
<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> is not mounted from a
memory file system, or if <filename>/etc</filename> is
read-only. The command will write the current transient
machine ID to disk and unmount the
<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> mount point in a
race-free manner to ensure that this file is always valid and
accessible for other processes.</para>
<para>This command is primarily used by the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-commit.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
early-boot service.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Exit status</title>
<para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code
otherwise.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-commit.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='dbus'><refentrytitle>dbus-uuidgen</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>