[10:31] <tg90nor> hi
[10:31] <tg90nor> what would cause cloud-init to regenerate ssh host keys upon rebooting my ubuntu trusty server?
[10:38] <Odd_Bloke> tg90nor: If cloud-init were to think that it were on a new host, it would regenerate them.  What environment are you seeing this in?
[10:39] <tg90nor> Odd_Bloke: my server is running in an openstack cloud. the logs indicate there may have been a problem reaching the metadata server
[10:40] <Odd_Bloke> tg90nor: cloud-init stores the data about instances it thinks it has run on in /var/lib/cloud/instances; is there more than one directory in there?
[10:40] <tg90nor> yes, there are two directories
[10:41] <Odd_Bloke> tg90nor: OK, so that's probably the issue you're seeing.
[10:44] <tg90nor> Odd_Bloke: thanks! seems cloud-init detected it as an ec2 instance, probably after some temporary failure to talk to the metadata server
[10:44] <Odd_Bloke> tg90nor: Ah, right; yeah, the assumption is that the metadata server will always be there. :)
[16:25] <esierrap> hi, is it possible set gid of group?