Re: Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-21 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Martin Read: 1. The init daemon should fork exactly once; in the child it should exec another program, while the parent (PID 1) does nothing except reap zombies. 2. As (1), except that if the initially-forked child process exits, PID 1 should repeat the fork and exec-in-child procedure.

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 18 nov 14, 23:12:48, Miles Fidelman wrote: I still don't think I'm seeing your point. Mail servers, and servers in general need to be initialized, usually rely on the o/s init system, and generally come packaged with a collection of init and utility scripts. To date, every single

[OT] xy? [was: Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]]

2014-11-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
, but I just checked, and guess what, no systemd service file in upstream). xy? Ummm those are NOT systemd scripts shipped by the upstream sendmail developers. Your point was noted - hence the xy? comment. ummm that's awfully cryptic Not if you are a programmer, or read this list often

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 18 nov 14, 23:12:48, Miles Fidelman wrote: I still don't think I'm seeing your point. Mail servers, and servers in general need to be initialized, usually rely on the o/s init system, and generally come packaged with a collection of init and utility scripts. To

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/11/14 15:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: Please don't top post - it's not hard to move the mouse. Scott Ferguson wrote: On 18/11/14 12:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: snipped I left out sendmail, but I just checked, and guess what, no systemd service file in upstream). xy? Ummm those

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Ludovic Meyer
, and guess what, no systemd service file in upstream). What do they know? Show us where Debian is using the file shipped by upstream. Then, tell me, is Debian wrong to not use them, or are the script shipped upstream deficient ? In fact, you show they are shipping initscript, but tell me, how

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 18/11/14 15:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: Please don't top post - it's not hard to move the mouse. Scott Ferguson wrote: On 18/11/14 12:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: snipped I left out sendmail, but I just checked, and guess what, no systemd service file in upstream). xy

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
and postgres And I'll note that those are precisely some of the most used, most mature packages, that you'll find on practically every production server in the world (well, ok, I left out sendmail, but I just checked, and guess what, no systemd service file in upstream). What do they know? Show us

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 18.11.2014 um 10:07 schrieb Ludovic Meyer ludo.v.me...@gmail.com: Show us where Debian is using the file shipped by upstream. Maybe drbd? Then, tell me, is Debian wrong to not use them, or are the script shipped upstream deficient ? In fact, you show they are shipping

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread iain
Show us where Debian is using the file shipped by upstream. dpkg -l | grep xymon ii xymon-client 4.3.17-4 amd64client for the Xymon network monitor 17:25:35 weezer:~/src/xymon-4.3.17$ diff /etc/init.d/xymon-client

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 16 novembre 2014, 11.50:25 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Given all the talk about not being able to influence upstream, it occurred to me to actually take a look at which of the major applications I rely on actually come with native systemd service scripts. Let's take the inverse

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Miles Fidelman [Sun, Nov 16 2014, 02:41:14PM]: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 16 nov 14, 11:50:25, Miles Fidelman wrote: So... with systemd, one has to: - rely on packagers to generate systemd service files, and/or, - rely on systemd's support for sysvinit scripts, which In the

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/11/14 23:14, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 18/11/14 15:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: snipped Scott Ferguson wrote: On 18/11/14 12:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: snipped I left out sendmail, but I just checked, and guess what, no systemd service file in upstream). xy? Ummm

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le dimanche, 16 novembre 2014, 11.50:25 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Given all the talk about not being able to influence upstream, it occurred to me to actually take a look at which of the major applications I rely on actually come with native systemd service scripts.

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 18/11/14 23:14, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 18/11/14 15:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: snipped Scott Ferguson wrote: On 18/11/14 12:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: snipped I left out sendmail, but I just checked, and guess what, no systemd service file

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
, and guess what, no systemd service file in upstream). xy? Ummm those are NOT systemd scripts shipped by the upstream sendmail developers. Your point was noted - hence the xy? comment. ummm that's awfully cryptic Not if you are a programmer, or read this list often. http

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 18 novembre 2014, 22.10:22 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Let's take the inverse view: which of these use the upstream sysvinit scripts directly ? The answer, as demonstrated below, is: none. Out of curiosity, how are you comparing these to the init

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-17 Thread Marty
On 11/17/2014 01:13 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 16 nov 14, 13:22:54, Marty wrote: On 11/16/2014 11:50 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: In the later case, one just has to read: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Incompatibilities/ to get very, very scared Each one a bug as per

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 nov 14, 07:29:00, Marty wrote: On 11/17/2014 01:13 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 16 nov 14, 13:22:54, Marty wrote: On 11/16/2014 11:50 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: In the later case, one just has to read: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Incompatibilities/ to get

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Given all the talk about not being able to influence upstream, it occurred to me to actually take a look at which of the major applications I rely on actually come with native systemd service scripts. I just went through the documentation, and in some cases, the source trees, for the

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-17 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:56:20PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Given all the talk about not being able to influence upstream, it occurred to me to actually take a look at which of the major applications I rely on actually come with native systemd service scripts. I just went through the

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ludovic Meyer wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:56:20PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Given all the talk about not being able to influence upstream, it occurred to me to actually take a look at which of the major applications I rely on actually come with native systemd service scripts. I just

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-17 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:34:47PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ludovic Meyer wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:56:20PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Given all the talk about not being able to influence upstream, it occurred to me to actually take a look at which of the major applications I

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
production server in the world (well, ok, I left out sendmail, but I just checked, and guess what, no systemd service file in upstream). What do they know? Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/11/14 12:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: snipped I left out sendmail, but I just checked, and guess what, no systemd service file in upstream). xy? Did you try Google? https://www.google.com/search?q=systemd+%2B%22sendmail.service%22ie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=tchannel=sb What do they know

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ummm those are NOT systemd scripts shipped by the upstream sendmail developers. They ship sysvinit scripts, period. Which is my point. Major upstream application developers do not seem to be jumping on systemd. If anything, what I'm seeing are oh sht, I guess we should develop systemd

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 10. 2014 04:06:23 je Marty napisal(a): On 10/20/2014 03:45 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Why not? I do not see sysvinit -- or any other legacy init

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On 2014-11-16 11:40, Klistvud wrote: 1. Reviving the existing init systems. Modernizing them, making them into true, interchangeable drop-in replacements of each other, which do the task assigned, and do it well. Each of them accomplishing at least the common subset of tasks an init system is

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt writes: On 2014-11-16 11:40, Klistvud wrote: 1. Reviving the existing init systems. Modernizing them, making them into true, interchangeable drop-in replacements of each other, which do the task assigned, and do it well. Each of them accomplishing at

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/16/2014 6:40 AM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 21. 10. 2014 04:06:23 je Marty napisal(a): On 10/20/2014 03:45 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Why not? I do

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: The problem here is lack of time and/or skills. I would love to help, but I already have my plate full. Additionally, I've done device drivers and applications, but never dealt with init systems. There would be a big learning curve. And

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Martin Read
On 16/11/14 11:40, Klistvud wrote: 1. Reviving the existing init systems. Modernizing them, making them into true, interchangeable drop-in replacements of each other, which do the task assigned, and do it well. Each of them accomplishing at least the common subset of tasks an init system is

init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Given all the talk about not being able to influence upstream, it occurred to me to actually take a look at which of the major applications I rely on actually come with native systemd service scripts. I just went through the documentation, and in some cases, the source trees, for the

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Laurent Bigonville
SysVinit as they both support the common standard that are LSB scripts (A really good share of the existing LSB initscripts in the debian archive are just working out of the box). 2) Again that's exactly what systemd and upstart are doing, they have added extra features to PID1 like socket

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-16 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:50:25AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Given all the talk about not being able to influence upstream, it occurred to me to actually take a look at which of the major applications I rely on actually come with native systemd service scripts. I just went through the

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Martin Read
On 16/11/14 17:33, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Are you aware that this is the approach that systemd and upstart have taken, right? 1) Both systemd (PID1) and upstart are drop-in replacement for the good old SysVinit as they both support the common standard that are LSB scripts (A really good

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 nov 14, 11:50:25, Miles Fidelman wrote: So... with systemd, one has to: - rely on packagers to generate systemd service files, and/or, - rely on systemd's support for sysvinit scripts, which In the later case, one just has to read:

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/16/2014 at 12:33 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:53:24 +, Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt a écrit : On 2014-11-16 11:40, Klistvud wrote: 1. Reviving the existing init systems. Modernizing them, making them into true, interchangeable drop-in

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 21. 10. 2014 04:06:23 je Marty napisal(a): On 10/20/2014 03:45 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Why not? I do

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-16 Thread Marty
On 11/16/2014 11:50 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: In the later case, one just has to read: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Incompatibilities/ to get very, very scared Each one a bug as per Debian policy (sysvinit support). Looks like we have our work cut out for us. Among the

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-16 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:50:25 -0500, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net a écrit : [...] So... with systemd, one has to: - rely on packagers to generate systemd service files, and/or, - rely on systemd's support for sysvinit scripts, which In the later case, one just has to read:

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:08:48 +, Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk a écrit : On 16/11/14 17:33, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Are you aware that this is the approach that systemd and upstart have taken, right? 1) Both systemd (PID1) and upstart are drop-in replacement for the good old

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Erwan David
Le 16/11/2014 19:22, Patrick Bartek a écrit : On Sun, 16 Nov 2014, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 21. 10. 2014 04:06:23 je Marty napisal(a): On 10/20/2014 03:45 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 06:08:48PM +, Martin Read wrote: On 16/11/14 17:33, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Are you aware that this is the approach that systemd and upstart have taken, right? 1) Both systemd (PID1) and upstart are drop-in replacement for the good old SysVinit as they both

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 16 nov 14, 11:50:25, Miles Fidelman wrote: So... with systemd, one has to: - rely on packagers to generate systemd service files, and/or, - rely on systemd's support for sysvinit scripts, which In the later case, one just has to read:

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/16/2014 6:40 AM, Klistvud klist...@gmail.com wrote: As a further example, the former udev (prior to being merged into systemd) has already been forked and could/will serve us well for years to come. And so on. Is eudev in the debian sources? Or do you mean another fork? -- To

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/16/2014 10:29 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: The problem here is lack of time and/or skills. I would love to help, but I already have my plate full. Additionally, I've done device drivers and applications, but never dealt with init

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 16. 11. 2014 21:06:09 je Tanstaafl napisal(a): On 11/16/2014 6:40 AM, Klistvud klist...@gmail.com wrote: As a further example, the former udev (prior to being merged into systemd) has already been forked and could/will serve us well for years to come. And so on. Is eudev in the debian

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: On 11/16/2014 10:29 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: So why, instead of spending all this time on a new init system didn't developers already familiar with sysvinit work on it? Systemd wasn't one person

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 nov 14, 13:22:54, Marty wrote: On 11/16/2014 11:50 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: In the later case, one just has to read: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Incompatibilities/ to get very, very scared Each one a bug as per Debian policy (sysvinit support). Looks like

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 08 November 2014 15:31:02 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: Andrei Popescu: Upstart was the only realcontender to systemd at the time of the evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being replaced by systemd everywhere. Tanstaafl: And why was OPenRC not

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/13/2014 10:53 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2014 15:31:02 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: Andrei Popescu: Quote from above, with added emphasis: Upstart was the only *real* contender to systemd *at the time* of the evaluation for the Technical

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 13 nov 14, 11:28:57, Tanstaafl wrote: Yes, apparently because someone actively sabotaged any possibility of OpenRC being considered by giving improper bad information on how to use it... OpenRC was represented by its Maintainer in the init debate (Thomas Goirand). Are you saying he

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/13/2014 3:42 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 13 nov 14, 11:28:57, Tanstaafl wrote: Yes, apparently because someone actively sabotaged any possibility of OpenRC being considered by giving improper bad information on how to use it... OpenRC was represented by

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard: Contrastingly, the people who were propounding OpenRC at the time provided a good example of how NOT to go about doing so. Their several mistakes are worth learning from. Tanstaafl: Not sure I understand what you are saying here... Are you saying that some of

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Andrei Popescu: Upstart was the only realcontender to systemd at the time of the evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being replaced by systemd everywhere. Tanstaafl: And why was OPenRC not acontender? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard: Your question takes a falsehood as its

Re: Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 oct 14, 09:49:46, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: Andrei Popescu: Upstart was the only real contender to systemd at the time of the evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being replaced by systemd everywhere. Tanstaafl: And why was OPenRC not a contender?

Re: Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-24 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Andrei Popescu: Upstart was the only real contender to systemd at the time of the evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being replaced by systemd everywhere. Tanstaafl: And why was OPenRC not a contender? Your question takes a falsehood as its premise. It actually

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/23/2014 4:10 PM, koanhead koanh...@riseup.net wrote: I propose OpenRC, having recently tried it. So far I'm liking how it works, and it solves most of the problems I had with sysvinit. It's not a replacement for PID1, and is supposed to be compatible with arbitrary PID1 programs

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/24/2014 4:49 AM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com wrote: Tanstaafl: And why was OPenRC not a contender? Your question takes a falsehood as its premise. It actually was, contrary to what M. Popescu dismissively stated. Several members of the

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:27:45AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ok, let's start with: - it's the rare desktop that has a fiber channel interface snip It's a rare server, too. Nearly all of our physical servers are VM hosts, onto which we fit around 100 VMs. Physical servers are at best 5% of

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-23 Thread koanhead
On 10/20/2014 04:00 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Yes. Syvinit still works, but it is after all 20 years old. It's been patched and bolted onto and jury

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, koanhead wrote: On 10/20/2014 04:00 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Yes. Syvinit still works, but it is after all 20 years old

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:41:21 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Joe
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:04:26 +1100 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. I have been told that one major distro does (or is attempting to do) just that - separate into a 'server' and a 'desktop' distribution. What, like Windows? I think that really is the point

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 21/10/14 15:10, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: Good question Patrick - top posted as I'm referring to the Subject. On 21/10/14 06:45, Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:27:45AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: - when's the last time you saw a desktop or laptop with an IPMI BMC (or for that matter, had a BMC infected by a virus - not pretty) (note: if you don't know what BMC stands for, then go away and learn

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Yes. Syvinit still works, but it is after all 20 years old. It's been patched and bolted onto and jury-rigged to get it to do things that weren't even around (or dreamt

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Peter Nieman
On 21/10/14 21:08, Miles Fidelman wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:18:49 +0200 Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: Using systemd since 2014-08-09 with no issues. Good for you. Let's see if you have no issues 2016-08-09, if Red Hat wins its war against Linux.

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/21/2014 4:21 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Upstart was the only real contender to systemd at the time of the evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being replaced by systemd everywhere. And why was OPenRC not a contender? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Peter Nieman wrote: On 21/10/14 21:08, Miles Fidelman wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:18:49 +0200 Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: Using systemd since 2014-08-09 with no issues. Good for you. Let's see if you have no issues 2016-08-09, if Red Hat wins its

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? Just wondering. See above and unless you are a tester or developer you may want

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Yes. Syvinit still works, but it is after all 20 years old. It's been patched and bolted onto and jury-rigged to get it to do things

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Jimmy, Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 09:17:16 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why?

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Jimmy, Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 09:17:16 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 08:44:02, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/21/2014 4:21 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Upstart was the only real contender to systemd at the time of the evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being replaced by systemd everywhere. And why was

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 11:37:51 schrieben Sie: Its Jessie/Sid that are under some circumstances difficult to use without systemd. As to my current knowledge one of the circumstances is an installed GNOME desktop. I install using the

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Ric Moore
On 10/22/2014 12:17 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? Just wondering. See above and

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 12:34:16 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 11:37:51 schrieben Sie: Its Jessie/Sid that are under some circumstances difficult to use without systemd. As to my current knowledge one of the circumstances is an

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Jimmy, I wrote to you off list, and you put my personal reply on the list. Please don�t do that. I mean personal replies as personal replies. I think I am not interested into digging into this topic further anyway. No problem and sorry as I did not realize you

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/10/14 19:05, Joe wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:04:26 +1100 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. I have been told that one major distro does (or is attempting to do) just that - separate into a 'server' and a 'desktop' distribution. What, like Windows?

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Yes. Syvinit still works, but it is after all 20 years old. It's been patched and bolted onto and jury-rigged to get it to do things that weren't even around (or dreamt of) at its inception. It's long past

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/10/14 20:51, Reco wrote: Hi. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:27:45AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: - when's the last time you saw a desktop or laptop with an IPMI BMC (or for that matter, had a BMC infected by a virus - not pretty) (note: if you don't know what BMC

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/10/14 21:23, Rusi Mody wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:20:05 PM UTC+5:30, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 21/10/14 15:10, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: snipped Are you guys just having fun talking past each other? I can only speak for myself - no.

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:34:48PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? * Nosh So this one is fun

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? * Nosh So this one is fun, it is just a direct copy of the systemd service format. Guess the proof that's at least a feature that people do want, dropping shell. I think you meant a direct copy of daemontools, didn't you? http

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:36:52AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: 2- Start testing uselessd; You missed 'package uselessd' for Debian - not yet done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:00:01 PM UTC+5:30, Ludovic Meyer wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:34:48PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
it. If that becomes true, I mean, if uselessd can act as systemd to mange/supervise process in a new fashion (i.e. no init scripts), then, it will be doing what systemd was supposed to be doing (in Debian) in first place! Sorry about my poor English. - Thiago On 21 October 2014 04:58, Jonathan Dowland j

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? Just wondering. See above and unless you are a tester or developer you may want to roll-back to

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi, Please do not top-post. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:27:34AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: If uselessd provides ONLY a new init, based on CGroups and lots of cool ideas from systemd itself, then, it worth trying it! Just for fun... I think it's an interesting project and I might

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Here are some interesting things one should be aware of before http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html Read enough about but still haven't read something really valuable against systemd from eg. Torvalds, Eric Steven Raymond, etc... (if you do, post the link) I believe the main

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:18:49AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Here are some interesting things one should be aware of before http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html Read enough about but still haven't read something really valuable against systemd from eg. Torvalds, Eric

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 oct 14, 00:10:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: Um, yes, there is. Typically different hardware (headless for starters), storage area networks, clusters, high availability, as well as different role, and so forth. I have a Raspberry Pi serving my domain (DNS + WWW). As far as I'm

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Raffaele, Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2014, 10:18:49 schrieb Raffaele Morelli: Here are some interesting things one should be aware of before http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html Read enough about but still haven't read something really valuable against systemd from eg.

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 21/10/14 at 09:41am, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:18:49AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Here are some interesting things one should be aware of before http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html Read enough about but still haven't read something

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/20/2014 3:45 PM, Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Yes. Syvinit still works, but it is after all 20 years old. It's been patched

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/20/2014 10:36 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ thiagocmarti...@gmail.com wrote: 1- Fork udev (out from systemd's tree or before it got merged / engulfed); Maybe Gentoo's eudev would be a good place to start with that. I also don't see why OpenRC isn't on the list of obvious choices. It is the default

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:12:17 +0200 Ludovic Meyer ludo.v.me...@gmail.com wrote: snip * Upstart no longer developped, and suffer from several bugs, go read the tech-ctte debate. I read it, and if Upstart problems were the most distressing thing in that debate, I'd be a happy

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:27:34AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: If uselessd provides ONLY a new init, based on CGroups and lots of cool ideas from systemd itself, then, it worth trying it! Just for fun... I think it's

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