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diff --git a/man/machine-id.xml b/man/machine-id.xml index 1e558a6178..d7a56cb548 100644 --- a/man/machine-id.xml +++ b/man/machine-id.xml @@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ <title>Description</title> <para>The <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file - contains the unique machine id of the local system + contains the unique machine ID of the local system that is set during installation. The machine ID is a - single newline-terminated, hexadecimal, lowercase 32 - character machine ID string. (When decoded from - hexadecimal this corresponds with a 16 byte/128 bit - string.)</para> + single newline-terminated, hexadecimal, 32-character, + lowercase machine ID string. When decoded from + hexadecimal, this corresponds with a 16-byte/128-bit + string.</para> <para>The machine ID is usually generated from a random source during system installation and stays @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ boot if it is found to be empty.</para> <para>The machine ID does not change based on user - configuration, or when hardware is replaced.</para> + configuration or when hardware is replaced.</para> <para>This machine ID adheres to the same format and logic as the D-Bus machine ID.</para> @@ -77,10 +77,10 @@ <para>Programs may use this ID to identify the host 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 + changes. Due to this and its greater length, it is a more useful replacement for the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gethostid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> - call POSIX specifies.</para> + call that POSIX specifies.</para> <para>The <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-setup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> @@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ <para>Note that the machine ID historically is not an OSF UUID as defined by <ulink url="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122">RFC - 4122</ulink>, nor a Microsoft GUID. Starting with - systemd v30 newly generated machine IDs however do + 4122</ulink>, nor a Microsoft GUID; however, starting with + systemd v30, newly generated machine IDs do qualify as v4 UUIDs.</para> <para>In order to maintain compatibility with existing |