* Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> [190808 08:42]: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:37:16AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > > Does anyone know what applications use this file for what purpose? Is > > this a systemd-ism? > > man machine-id The man page says what it is (a unique, random ID for the machine) and how to initialize it, but says nothing about why it exists. What applications expect it to be there? ...Marvin