[systemd-devel] Service Management and systemd Microconference @ Linux Plumbers

2022-04-27 Thread Anita Zhang
I'll be hosting this microconference at Linux Plumbers Conference 2022! You can submit talks to this microconference through https://lpc.events/event/16/abstracts/ and select the corresponding track. LPC is happening Sept 12-14. It will be hybrid this year and presenters are encouraged to come

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 13:31 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 1:07 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:19 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:40:36AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:26

[systemd-devel] Waiting for all jobs to finish

2022-04-27 Thread Barry Scott
I have two target files that I use. prod.target is used to start up all the production services. When I use systemctl start prod.target it blocks until all the services are running. I also have prod-upgrade.target that is used to stop service via Conflicts=. When I use systemctl start

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 1:07 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:19 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:40:36AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:26 AM Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:19 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:40:36AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:26 AM Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:10 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > > > > > Note that it means Fedora

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Am Mi., 27. Apr. 2022 um 18:02 Uhr schrieb Michael Biebl : > > Am Mi., 27. Apr. 2022 um 17:16 Uhr schrieb Dan Nicholson : > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:01 AM Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > > > Slightly related > > > https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/138 > > >

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 27.04.22 11:40, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: > But I also strongly believe that it was a mistake to merge gummiboot > into the systemd source tree because it creates all kinds of problems > for distro maintenance, as I've already said earlier. That's very vague. I still don#t

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:40:36AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:26 AM Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:10 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > > > Note that it means Fedora CI, pull requests from contributors, and > > > releng auto-rebuilds will no longer

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:59 AM Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 11:48 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:46 AM Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 11:26 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:13 AM Zbigniew

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:48:04AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:46 AM Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 11:26 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 27.04.22 11:10, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Rebooting from the DE has advantages: nice UI without much work, l10n, > > accessibility, help, integration with normal auth mechanisms (e.g. polkit > > auth for non-default boot entries or firmware setup), no need to > > fiddle

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Am Mi., 27. Apr. 2022 um 17:16 Uhr schrieb Dan Nicholson : > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:01 AM Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > Slightly related > > https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/138 > > [sd-boot split] > >

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 11:48 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:46 AM Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 11:26 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:49 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:26:14AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 09:31:10AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > On Wed,

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 27.04.22 11:26, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: > > E.g. the biggest development in how the boot looks in recent years > > in Fedora has been hiding on the boot menus and boot messages by > > default. I.e. the _design_ is that you start with the logo of the > > manufacturer which is

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:26:14AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 09:31:10AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:41 AM Lennart Poettering > > > wrote: > > > It is not very

Re: [systemd-devel] Starting transient services securely from other service without root

2022-04-27 Thread Michal Koutný
Hello Vašek. On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:45:34AM +0200, Vašek Šraier wrote: > TL;DR: I want to start transient system services from another system > service via DBus. All services should have as little privileges as > possible, definitely not root. How can I do that securely? PolicyKit popped

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:46 AM Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 11:26 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 09:31:10AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:41

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 11:26 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 09:31:10AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:41 AM Lennart Poettering > > > > > Realistically, I think if we want to

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:26 AM Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:10 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > Note that it means Fedora CI, pull requests from contributors, and > > releng auto-rebuilds will no longer work. Maintainers basically > > sign-on to do all of those things

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 09:31:10AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:41 AM Lennart Poettering > > wrote: > > It is not very friendly when you're in a failure scenario or have to > > deal with boot stuff.

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:10 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > Note that it means Fedora CI, pull requests from contributors, and > releng auto-rebuilds will no longer work. Maintainers basically > sign-on to do all of those things manually and have to be responsive > for doing it. You will get FTBFS

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:01 AM Michael Biebl wrote: > > Slightly related > https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/138 > [sd-boot split] > https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/132 > [Draft: Prepare for EFI signing] Oh, nice. We've been signing

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 09:31:10AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:41 AM Lennart Poettering > wrote: > It is not very friendly when you're in a failure scenario or have to > deal with boot stuff. Well, if you have a boot failure, then a text-based interface is better than a

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:55:55AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 6:47 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 07:12:02PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > Hey all,

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Slightly related https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/138 [sd-boot split] https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/132 [Draft: Prepare for EFI signing] Am Mi., 27. Apr. 2022 um 16:13 Uhr schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek : > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:55:55AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 6:47 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 07:12:02PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > Hi Neal, > > > > thank you for starting the discussion. I think it'd be

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 27.04.22 09:44, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: > > To be frank, it seems to not actually bring much to the table that > > might be interesting from a modern Linux userspace perspective, > > i.e. doesn't implement boot laoder spec or boot loader interface, no > > boot counting, no

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 27.04.22 09:31, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Some of you might know about the recent discussion in Fedora about > > > dropping BIOS support[1][2]. While the end result for now is that > > > we're not dropping it[3], several side discussions involved enabling > > >

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:31 AM Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mi, 27.04.22 08:55, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > You mentioned that a few times, and we (at least Lennnart and I) have > > > asked for details. If there's something important missing from sd-boot, > > > we would

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:41 AM Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Di, 26.04.22 19:12, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > Some of you might know about the recent discussion in Fedora about > > dropping BIOS support[1][2]. While the end result for now is that > > we're not

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 27.04.22 08:55, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: > > You mentioned that a few times, and we (at least Lennnart and I) have > > asked for details. If there's something important missing from sd-boot, > > we would like to know. > > I think this is probably a distraction from this

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 8:55 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 6:47 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 07:12:02PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > Hi Neal, > > > > thank you for starting the discussion. I think it'd be good to

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 6:47 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 07:12:02PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > Hey all, > > Hi Neal, > > thank you for starting the discussion. I think it'd be good to figure > out what are the high-level options we have as a community… > >

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Di, 26.04.22 19:12, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hey all, > > Some of you might know about the recent discussion in Fedora about > dropping BIOS support[1][2]. While the end result for now is that > we're not dropping it[3], several side discussions involved enabling > systemd-boot

Re: [systemd-devel] Q: non-ASCII in syslog

2022-04-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 27.04.22 09:09, Ulrich Windl (ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de) wrote: > Hi! > > Having written an RFC 3164 compatible syslog daemon, I noticed that systemd > created syslog messages with non-ASCII characters. > The problem is that a remote syslogd can hardly guess the correct character >

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 07:12:02PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > Hey all, Hi Neal, thank you for starting the discussion. I think it'd be good to figure out what are the high-level options we have as a community… > Some of you might know about the recent discussion in Fedora about > dropping BIOS

Re: [systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

2022-04-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 19:12 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > Hey all, > > Some of you might know about the recent discussion in Fedora about > dropping BIOS support[1][2]. While the end result for now is that > we're not dropping it[3], several side discussions involved enabling > systemd-boot as an

Re: [systemd-devel] Q: non-ASCII in syslog

2022-04-27 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:09 AM Ulrich Windl < ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: > Hi! > > Having written an RFC 3164 compatible syslog daemon, I noticed that systemd > created syslog messages with non-ASCII characters. > The problem is that a remote syslogd can hardly guess the correct

[systemd-devel] Q: non-ASCII in syslog

2022-04-27 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Having written an RFC 3164 compatible syslog daemon, I noticed that systemd created syslog messages with non-ASCII characters. The problem is that a remote syslogd can hardly guess the correct character set (I'm using rsyslog to forward local messages to a remote server). Example of such