Re: systemd and chkconfig and change [was Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?]

2015-05-06 Thread franta
... Other parts are actually really cool, like management of services throughout their whole lifetime, relevant log messages automatically shown for systemctl status, I am personally convinced that journalctl and its binary logs are one of the big systemd mistakes. And that grep/awk/sed/...

Re: systemd and chkconfig and change [was Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?]

2015-05-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 09:30:35AM +0200, Jon Ingason wrote: Den 2015-05-06 08:55, fra...@hanzlici.cz skrev: ... Other parts are actually really cool, like management of services throughout their whole lifetime, relevant log messages automatically shown for systemctl status, I am

Re: systemd and chkconfig and change [was Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?]

2015-05-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 06 May 2015 09:30:35 +0200 Jon Ingason wrote: You can still use grep/awk/sed/... :-) Not if the binary files get corrupted. Most of the time, you can't even boot when that happens :-( -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: systemd and chkconfig and change [was Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?]

2015-05-06 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2015-05-06 08:55, fra...@hanzlici.cz skrev: ... Other parts are actually really cool, like management of services throughout their whole lifetime, relevant log messages automatically shown for systemctl status, I am personally convinced that journalctl and its binary logs are one of

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-06 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 16:07 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: gkrellm isn't necessarily counting background services. The real number of background services can be found out using systemctl --type=service. In my system I see 67. In any case, I wouldn't worry about number of processes unless you

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 5 May 2015 at 19:57, Antonio Olivares wingat...@inbox.com wrote: Well, I'd count the systemd and docker don't work together well bit with some degree of skepticism. But, on the larger point: Fedora doesn't strive to be bleeding edge. We strive to be the first to offer the newest and best

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Tim wrote: Or a security concern... Some people install everything under the sun, and you really don't want a telnet server running. Unlike say Debian, Fedora does not default to running services just because a package is installed. There are very few

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
My approach to this issue has been to learn to live with systemd, and hope that the reasons for its existence will ultimately be of global benefit. It's the same frame of mind one has when paying taxes --- they're unavoidable, painful for the individual, and are supposed to be beneficial for

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
SysV init scripts are here for ages They were large, inconsistent, and burdensome to maintain. The people who maintained them decided that there was a better option. If you are willing to maintain them, then you can do the work to provide an alternate init system. If you're not doing

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: Now there is a new alternative to systemd see RancherOS I am actually surprised and puzzled by this! I thought Fedora was bleeding edge* and was the pioneer of new technologies* but now someone else is leading the init*

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 09:43:28PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: journald automatically scales its usage to its idea of available memory That's an explanation that's somewhat less troubling. I read the man page for journald.conf and was not enlightened. Which values am I looking at? I see

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 05:24:23AM -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: see RancherOS http://rancher.com/rancher-os/ ``Eliminates need for complex init systems RancherOS eliminates the need for complex init systems like systemd. Systemd and Docker don’t work well together as they both attempt to

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: One question *may not be systemd related*, how come fedora after startup has 300+ services running in the background? How are you counting services? Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
-Original Message- From: methe...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, 5 May 2015 15:44:28 -0400 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init? Hi On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Antonio Olivares  wrote: One question *may not be systemd related*, how

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
-Original Message- From: methe...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, 5 May 2015 16:07:35 -0400 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init? Hi On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: I run gkrellm and it lists 340 procs.  Before

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: I run gkrellm and it lists 340 procs. Before it used to be a smaller number gkrellm isn't necessarily counting background services. The real number of background services can be found out using systemctl --type=service. In my

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: There are 121 services here when I pass --all. How many of these are unneeded? FYI, I would suggest posting a new thread or renaming the subject to match your queries You can't count all since that is the list of all possible

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
Now there is a new alternative to systemd see RancherOS I am actually surprised and puzzled by this!  I thought Fedora was bleeding edge* and was the pioneer of new technologies*  but now someone else is leading the init* technologies. I don't see how.  It is not a new technology. 

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
Well, I'd count the systemd and docker don't work together well bit with some degree of skepticism. But, on the larger point: Fedora doesn't strive to be bleeding edge. We strive to be the first to offer the newest and best of _functional_ open source software. And that's a hard balance to

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-05 Thread Tim
Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: SysV init scripts are here for ages Gordon Messmer: They were large, inconsistent, and burdensome to maintain. The people who maintained them decided that there was a better option. Just watching this on the sidelines, but /etc/init.d/httpd on my old Fedora

finding out about new stuff [was Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?]

2015-05-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 10:45:09AM -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: I did not know about this. This is new stuff. We actually do not know of many things that are happening. If you haven't, check out Fedora Magazine, at http://fedoramagazine.org/. We try to talk about all sorts of new

systemd and chkconfig and change [was Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?]

2015-05-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 10:45:09AM -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: with regards to services, I still miss the old # chkconfig --list # chkconfig service off; etc. Part of the problem is that this was already showing its age. Many modern services are started on demand, rather than on boot, and

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 14:04 +0200, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Why hasn't Fedora alternative (upstart/openrc) init? Wasn't upstart the (ironically named) new thing that was utterly despised in Ubuntu, many years ago? -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.5-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Apr 20

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 09:41 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: See Tip 3 in: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/systemd.html While I can see that attitude in closed source software, as yet another vendor lock-in, I'm more inclined to go with a point I saw raised, elsewhere, about ADD

Re: SV: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread birger
ma., 04.05.2015 kl. 01.48 +0200, skrev Frantisek Hanzlik: Hmm, I guess You want advice me, to bought some strictly limited (maybe commercial) OS - and then shut up and be satisfied with I have. But this fortunately is not Linux case... That was not what I wrote at all. I gave reasons why

Re: SV: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 01:48:57AM +0200, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Hmm, I guess You want advice me, to bought some strictly limited (maybe commercial) OS - and then shut up and be satisfied with I have. But this fortunately is not Linux case... Fundamentally, if you want something to be

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 02:57:57PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: I tend to think that's a better question. 2.5M of memory is trivial, but I have systems where the RSS of systemd-journald is 30M+ The very high variability of the memory size for that process makes me worry about memory leaks.

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 03 May 2015, Marko Vojinovic sent: Oooh, I see, writing buggy and ill-documented code is (ultimately) better for the market survival of the software company! Isn't that how Microsoft made their millions? -- All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/03/2015 04:13 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: SysV init scripts are here for ages They were large, inconsistent, and burdensome to maintain. The people who maintained them decided that there was a better option. If you are willing to maintain them, then you can do

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/04/2015 06:20 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: journald automatically scales its usage to its idea of available memory That's an explanation that's somewhat less troubling. I read the man page for journald.conf and was not enlightened. Which values am I looking at? I see references to

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread Dan Irwin
I find the attitude of many of the senior fedora people quite disappointing. There is no freedom, there is ZERO choice on this issue. It's a dictatorship. My observations are that the systemd people are not the best people for the job. In fact, they are probably at the complete other end of the

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread Ronal B Morse
Forget it, Dan. It's Chinatown. RBM On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 08:07 +1000, Dan Irwin wrote: I find the attitude of many of the senior fedora people quite disappointing. There is no freedom, there is ZERO choice on this issue. It's a dictatorship. My observations are that the systemd people

Re: SV: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
birger wrote: First of all, supporting multiple init systems is not something a distro wants to do. It would involve forcing package maintainers to support them when getting enough package maintainers is a problem already. The alternative is to create a respin with another init system and

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Pete Travis
On May 3, 2015 6:04 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: - (problem for me create init script for another network daemon instance running on different port etc. TIA, Franta Hanzlik -- I cut out the parts that didn't seem relevant to accomplishing what it seems like you are

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/03/2015 05:04 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: - (bigger harm) Why hasn't Fedora alternative (upstart/openrc) init? ... When systemd presents itself as compatible with sysvinit, then IMO having alternative init in Fedora should not be too big problem. Systemd is backward-compatible with SysV

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Rahul, thanks to Your recommendation. But for wider angle, this isn't as so significant. I want a stable system on which I can rely on - and it now block systemd piece. And as I see for last 4 years of its evolving, it is still

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Rahul, I'm not sure what you're talking about, sorry for my narrow english knowledge. Despite of that, although I know that systemd fans talk how is its documentations exhaustive (best/ideal/...), it isn't truth I disagree with

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Rahul Sundaram wrote: HI On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Rahul, I'm not sure what you're talking about, sorry for my narrow english knowledge. Despite of that, although I know that systemd fans talk how is its documentations exhaustive

Re: SV: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 01:48:57 +0200, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Hmm, I guess You want advice me, to bought some strictly limited (maybe commercial) OS - and then shut up and be satisfied with I have. But this fortunately is not Linux case... However it is very unlikely

SV: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread birger
First of all, supporting multiple init systems is not something a distro wants to do. It would involve forcing package maintainers to support them when getting enough package maintainers is a problem already. The alternative is to create a respin with another init system and its own builds of

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/03/2015 05:04 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: - (bigger harm) Why hasn't Fedora alternative (upstart/openrc) init? ... When systemd presents itself as compatible with sysvinit, then IMO having alternative init in Fedora should not be too big problem. Systemd is

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Pete Travis wrote: I cut out the parts that didn't seem relevant to accomplishing what it seems like you are trying to do. Can you elaborate on what service, specifically, you want to listen on a different port, how you attempted to change it, and what happened when you did so? Hi, it

F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
I just tried upgrade my F19/i686 PC to F21/i686, but I'm frustrated: - (bigger harm) Why hasn't Fedora alternative (upstart/openrc) init? In F14- times all things worked for me flawlessly, was not problem for me create init script for new (Fedora unsupported) services, was not problem for me

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 03 May 2015 14:04:37 +0200 Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: - (smaller harm) Why hasn't systemd option to run without journald? See Tip 3 in: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/systemd.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sun, 03 May 2015 14:04:37 +0200 Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: - (bigger harm) Why hasn't Fedora alternative (upstart/openrc) init? Umm, because everyone is happy with systemd? :-) If you want Fedora to have an alternative init, roll up your sleeves

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 3 May 2015 15:45:36 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: Umm, because everyone is happy with systemd? :-) Not the slightest possibility that is true. I have a more likely reason for the universal adoption of systemd: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/selection.html -- users mailing

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sun, 03 May 2015 14:04:37 +0200 Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: - (bigger harm) Why hasn't Fedora alternative (upstart/openrc) init? Umm, because everyone is happy with systemd? :-) If you want Fedora to have an alternative init, roll up your sleeves and dig in, make it happen!

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sun, 03 May 2015 17:33:53 +0200 Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sun, 03 May 2015 14:04:37 +0200 Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: - (bigger harm) Why hasn't Fedora alternative (upstart/openrc) init? Umm, because

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sun, 3 May 2015 10:57:55 -0400 Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2015 15:45:36 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: Umm, because everyone is happy with systemd? :-) Not the slightest possibility that is true. I have a more likely reason for the universal adoption of

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2015 15:45:36 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: Umm, because everyone is happy with systemd? :-) Not the slightest possibility that is true. I have a more likely reason for the universal adoption of systemd:

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2015 15:45:36 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: Umm, because everyone is happy with systemd? :-) Not the slightest possibility that is true. I have a more likely reason for the universal adoption of systemd:

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2015 15:45:36 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: Umm, because everyone is happy with systemd? :-) Not the slightest possibility that is true. I have a more likely reason for the

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sun, 03 May 2015 17:33:53 +0200 Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sun, 03 May 2015 14:04:37 +0200 Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: - (bigger harm) Why hasn't Fedora alternative (upstart/openrc) init? Umm, because everyone is happy