Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-15 Thread David Benfell
lee writes: David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org writes: I think mainly that you don't need logrotate. journald takes care of it automatically. Well, with logrotate, you can have to logs mailed to you. Can journald do that, too? Couldn't tell you. I don't understand the man page well

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 July 2014 14:15, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:19 AM, lee wrote: The bug --- or call it misstatement if you like --- is with systemd in that things can still be started even when they are disabled. Err. no. Before systemd, the equivalent of

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/10/14 16:03, Ian Malone wrote: On 9 July 2014 14:15, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:19 AM, lee wrote: The bug --- or call it misstatement if you like --- is with systemd in that things can still be started even when they are disabled. Err. no.

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread lee
Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com writes: Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:08 PM, lee wrote: That is irrelevant. How? Because disabled means disabled and not something like ondemand. I don't know what you don't understand --- disabled means disabled, i. e. cannot be started. No.

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread lee
Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com writes: Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:42 PM, lee wrote: I made a bug report suggesting to fix their misunderstanding of what disabled means. It would have been very easy to fix, but they declined. Why should I make any further bug reports about systemd

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread lee
Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com writes: Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:23 PM, lee wrote: Then they should do it again. That is a Debian maintainers decision. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't do it again. That doesn't mean that users shouldn't get to vote. It just means voting

RE: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Tom Horsley Sent: woensdag 9 juli 2014 18:24 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: why do we use systemd? On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 11:57:26 -0400 Rahul Sundaram

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread Balint Szigeti
On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 13:35 +0200, lee wrote: David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org writes: I guess the two questions I'm reaching for are: 1) Is systemd conceptually broken, just a really bad idea from the start? Some people say yes, and some of them argue well. So far, I've seen

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
On 10.7.2014 13:30, Balint Szigeti wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 13:35 +0200, lee wrote: David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org mailto:benf...@parts-unknown.org writes: I guess the two questions I'm reaching for are: 1) Is systemd conceptually broken, just a really bad idea from the

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Tom H wrote: You might not need to use all of the systemd tools but its tools aren't independent. That is similar to how optional features are handled in many collections. If you use

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread Matthew Miller
Everyone! Please read https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/451692.html I am not kidding. This morning, there are a dozen new messages all recycling around points that have already been made hundreds of posts ago in this thread. Regardless of the merit of these points, this

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:34 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:42 PM, lee wrote: I made a bug report suggesting to fix their misunderstanding of what disabled means. It would have been very easy to fix, but they declined.

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread Balint Szigeti
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 14:09 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: On 10.7.2014 13:30, Balint Szigeti wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 13:35 +0200, lee wrote: David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org writes: I guess the two questions I'm reaching for are: 1) Is systemd

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread poma
On 10.07.2014 16:10, Balint Szigeti wrote: It looks like, a small group of the community makes decisions and the other people don't have choice. No alternatives :( The alternative is that someone talks the same thing about you, in a parallel universe. :) poma -- users mailing list

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:05:03 -0400 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Everyone! Please read https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/451692.html I am not kidding. This morning, there are a dozen new messages all recycling around points that have already

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread James Hogarth
On 9 Jul 2014 00:33, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: This is not random Debian maintainers. This is the Debian technical committee empowered with making such decisions. A GR (General resolution) is the only way to override the tech committee and that requires some Debian maintainer to

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread lee
David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org writes: lee writes: I don't mind this idea. Yet when I disable something, I expect it to be disabled. This is another terminology issue, which I think should be viewed separately from the merits/demerits of systemd itself. And I'm inclined to agree

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread lee
Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com writes: This is not random Debian maintainers. This is the Debian technical committee empowered with making such decisions. A GR (General resolution) is the only way to override the tech committee and that requires some Debian maintainer to propose one and

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/08/2014 11:40 PM, lee wrote: When something is disguised or hidden, it is not disabled. It is camouflaged or concealed. Camouflage, concealment, hiding, disguise and masking can all be used for*preventing* from being disabled. No. When a service is disabled it can still be started

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 07/08/2014 11:40 PM, lee wrote: When something is disguised or hidden, it is not disabled. It is camouflaged or concealed. Camouflage, concealment, hiding, disguise and masking can all be used for*preventing* from being disabled.

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread David Benfell
lee writes: David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org writes: Why should it be seen separately? Poorly chosen terms is a feature of systemd like any other it may have, and this feature leads straightaway to unexpected and undesired results when used. That the authors even deny fixing it is ...

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:03 AM, lee wrote: Apparently the project secretary has a hand in it, and sponsors are needed. So maybe it's not as easy as it seems. It is fairly easy to bring any proposal to vote. Debian has done it numerous times. Too bad that the users never get to

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread lee
David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org writes: I guess the two questions I'm reaching for are: 1) Is systemd conceptually broken, just a really bad idea from the start? Some people say yes, and some of them argue well. So far, I've seen only arguments that would support that systemd is a

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread lee
Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us writes: On 07/08/2014 11:40 PM, lee wrote: When something is disguised or hidden, it is not disabled. It is camouflaged or concealed. Camouflage, concealment, hiding, disguise and masking can all be used for*preventing* from being disabled. No. When a service is

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 09:49 +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote: On 7 July 2014 08:34, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 13:01 -0700, David Benfell wrote: *What*, for example, is the usual meaning of file system objects? A file? Why not just say file? And if

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:19 AM, lee wrote: The bug --- or call it misstatement if you like --- is with systemd in that things can still be started even when they are disabled. Err. no. Before systemd, the equivalent of mask simply didn't exist and there was no systematic way to

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Tom Rivers
On 7/9/2014 07:12, Rahul Sundaram wrote: All major distributions at this point have switched to systemd or in the process of doing so which should tell you the value of it. With respect, just because there is consensus among governing entities doesn't necessarily mean that the decision is

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 08 July 2014, David Benfell sent: This is another terminology issue, which I think should be viewed separately from the merits/demerits of systemd itself. And I'm inclined to agree that the terms are poorly chosen. If it'd been my choice, disabled would have meant

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: With respect, just because there is consensus among governing entities doesn't necessarily mean that the decision is good for everyone. Consensus != Fact. History is replete with examples. Sure but if you want to go against the

Re: Why do we use systemd

2014-07-09 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 09/07/14 05:35 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: On 7 Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:36:37 -0700 From: Joe Zeff On 07/08/2014 11:40 PM, lee wrote: When something is disguised or hidden, it is not disabled. It is camouflaged or concealed. Camouflage, concealment, hiding, disguise

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Tom Rivers
On 7/9/2014 09:57, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Sure but if you want to go against the consensus, you will have to do something more concrete. That is precisely why I challenged your assertion that the value of systemd was because everyone was adopting it. The reason you gave for dismissing all of

Re: Why do we use systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 07/09/2014 05:51 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: On 09/07/14 05:35 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: On 7 Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:36:37 -0700 From: Joe Zeff On 07/08/2014 11:40 PM, lee wrote: When something is disguised or hidden, it is not disabled. It is camouflaged or

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: On 7/9/2014 09:57, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Sure but if you want to go against the consensus, you will have to do something more concrete. That is precisely why I challenged your assertion that the value of systemd was because everyone

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 11:57:26 -0400 Rahul Sundaram wrote: if anyone is pushing for alternatives, they should understand that systemd isn't just a init system Which is, of course, the primary thing that is wrong with it :-). Unix/linux grew successfully for years by dividing things into small

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 11:57:26 -0400 Rahul Sundaram wrote: if anyone is pushing for alternatives, they should understand that systemd isn't just a init system Which is, of course, the primary thing that is wrong with it :-).

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 12:43:57 -0400 Rahul Sundaram wrote: This isn't the case. systemd isn't monolithic. it is a collection of tools with a shared codebase where most of the tools are optional. Its a collection of tools, all of which talk to an ever increasing monolithic systemd daemon which

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 01:15:53PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 12:43:57 -0400 Rahul Sundaram wrote: This isn't the case. systemd isn't monolithic. it is a collection of tools with a shared codebase where most of the tools are optional. Its a collection of tools, all

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Systemd is now engulfing practically all of linux. A bug in one piece can make dozens of other things fail, and it is so large and complex that there *will* be bugs in

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Tom H wrote: You might not need to use all of the systemd tools but its tools aren't independent. That is similar to how optional features are handled in many collections. If you use some features, they might pull in other requirements but the features

Code of Conduct warning on why do we use systemd thread

2014-07-09 Thread Matthew Miller
Please review https://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct (also linked in the signature of every message on this list). I think there may be some constructive messages in that thread, but there's also a lot of trolling and quite a bit of back and forth rehashing the same thing. This does not

Re: Why do we use systemd

2014-07-09 Thread lee
Adrian Sevcenco adrian.sevce...@cern.ch writes: These are completely unrelated terms. in services start language enabled means start at boot and disabled do not start at boot .. and that's all .. If you want to see it this way, then systemd misunderstands things so that disabled means to

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread lee
Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com writes: Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:03 AM, lee wrote: Apparently the project secretary has a hand in it, and sponsors are needed. So maybe it's not as easy as it seems. It is fairly easy to bring any proposal to vote. Debian has done it numerous

Re: Why do we use systemd

2014-07-09 Thread lee
R. G. Newbury newb...@mandamus.org writes: So 'masked' is actually NEVER NOT EVEN WHEN YOU WANT IT. and DISABLED means SOMETIMES, They confuse masked with disabled and disabled with ondemand and deny to fix that. This thread contains numerous instances of why systemd is not well

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread lee
Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com writes: Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:19 AM, lee wrote: The bug --- or call it misstatement if you like --- is with systemd in that things can still be started even when they are disabled. Err. no. Before systemd, the equivalent of mask simply didn't

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread lee
Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com writes: If there are concrete criticisms, they should ideally be in the form of bug reports to reach the developers directly. I made a bug report suggesting to fix their misunderstanding of what disabled means. It would have been very easy to fix, but they

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:08 PM, lee wrote: That is irrelevant. How? The fact that dynamically started services can only directly be controlled by systemd in a systematic manner is directly relevant. It explains the real difference between disabled and mask. I don't know what you

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:23 PM, lee wrote: Then they should do it again. That is a Debian maintainers decision. That doesn't mean that users shouldn't get to vote. It just means voting isn't how distribution choose system components. Switching to something because there is no

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:42 PM, lee wrote: I made a bug report suggesting to fix their misunderstanding of what disabled means. It would have been very easy to fix, but they declined. Why should I make any further bug reports about systemd when they don't want to even fix important

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 9, 2014, at 8:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: would suggest that the misunderstanding is on your part instead as noted in another reply. However even if it weren't true, we all get bug reports closed from time to time with a resolution different from what we want.

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread poma
OK that's it! I sincerely recommend the moderators to close this shameful thread where certain creatures are capable of spitting on the systemd and its developers without any remorse! poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread Russell Miller
Poma said: OK that's it! I sincerely recommend the moderators to close this shameful thread where certain creatures are capable of spitting on the systemd and its developers without any remorse! I think Greg had the right idea. *plonk*. To be frank, as I mentioned on another thread on another

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread poma
On 08.07.2014 08:28, Russell Miller wrote: I think Greg had the right idea. *plonk*. Mister plonk-man, this has nothing to do with Greg! Uber hilarious! poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread lee
David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org writes: https://wiki.debian.org/systemd systemd was included in Debian wheezy as a technology preview However, it appears that even though they have taken their vote, and chosen systemd, they have not yet developed service files for all their

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread lee
Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us writes: In systemd, a service that's disabled won't be directly started at boot, but another service can still start it either at boot or later. That means that the service is *not* disabled. To keep a service from being started by systemd under any circumstances, you

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread David Benfell
lee writes: And only seven votes? Are they serious? I didn't realize they'd only gotten seven votes (presumably of the maintainers who advocate systemd). I do understand that quorum rules need to be loose enough to allow anything at all to get done. But this seems *too* loose. --

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread David Benfell
lee writes: I don't mind this idea. Yet when I disable something, I expect it to be disabled. This is another terminology issue, which I think should be viewed separately from the merits/demerits of systemd itself. And I'm inclined to agree that the terms are poorly chosen. I guess the

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread lee
David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org writes: lee writes: And only seven votes? Are they serious? I didn't realize they'd only gotten seven votes (presumably of the maintainers who advocate systemd). I do understand that quorum rules need to be loose enough to allow anything at all to

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread Alan Evans
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Garry T. Williams wrote: On 7-5-14 14:30:39 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: +1. One of my pet gripes about systemd is that it introduces a lot of new terminology without a clear explanation. Have you looked at the manual pages? I know of no other project that

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:07 PM, David Benfell wrote: lee writes: And only seven votes? Are they serious? I didn't realize they'd only gotten seven votes (presumably of the maintainers who advocate systemd). I do understand that quorum rules need to be loose enough to allow anything

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread Norman Gaywood
On 7 July 2014 08:34, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 13:01 -0700, David Benfell wrote: *What*, for example, is the usual meaning of file system objects? A file? Why not just say file? And if the documentation really means files or pipes or devices,

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Norman Gaywood wrote: What about a file without a name? :-) If you delete all filenames of a file while it is opened by a process, it still uses filesystem space but has no name. There are other cases as well

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread poma
On 08.07.2014 01:16, poma wrote: On 08.07.2014 01:15, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:08:48AM +0200, poma wrote: On 08.07.2014 00:53, David Benfell wrote: poma writes: What is the sediment in the thread context? I suspect the word that was meant here is 'sentiment'. Yeah it

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
Garry T. Williams wrote: There are a slew of references on the 'Net Then give one ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 07/06/2014 07:45 PM, lee wrote: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us writes: On 07/06/2014 12:43 AM, lee wrote: Not even the configuration files are where they belong. Actually, they're exactly where they belong. They just aren't where you expect them to be. They belong under /etc, not hidden

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:38:16AM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: Garry T. Williams wrote: There are a slew of references on the 'Net Then give one ... Or if you could share your slides from the talk you gave, that would be nice. I sincerely would like to understand systemd, and so far all

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread David Benfell
Adrian Sevcenco writes: moreover you can separately configure a service without modifying the .service file (which usually is linked in /etc/systemd) : Possibly my information is out of date. I thought you were to put such service files in /etc/systemd/system and systemctl looks here first

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread lee
Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 13:01 -0700, David Benfell wrote: *What*, for example, is the usual meaning of file system objects? A file? Why not just say file? And if the documentation really means files or pipes or devices, then why not say

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread lee
Glenn Holmer shad...@lyonlabs.org writes: But when someone replies to that by saying that systemd is broken because a shepherd is not a sheep, well... that's just splitting grammatical hairs to try and prove that the documentation is obtuse. Then you haven't thought far enough. The

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread lee
Russell Miller duskg...@gmail.com writes: On Jul 6, 2014, at 5:33 PM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Rolf Turner writes: The difference is that Olav is polite and you are abusive. If you regard what I say as abusive, then you should, perhaps, be challenging this entire

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread lee
Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com writes: David Benfell writes: Systemd needs to be a vast improvement to justify this. And it seems that not everyone even agrees that it's an improvement at all. Here's something that I can't figure out: with this entire thread in mind, why is all of

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread lee
Bill Oliver ven...@billoblog.com writes: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, David Benfell wrote: So in your view, I have no right to object to his behavior but you have a right to object to my objection? Something ain't right there. Some things are above criticism. It's important that you know your

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread lee
Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com writes: On 06/07/14 18:44, lee wrote: Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com writes: [...] yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio used to do it. It would still be installed, but not loaded/used. Hm, yes, I could actually remove it without removing anything else,

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread lee
Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu writes: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, Kevin Fenzi wrote: What systemd config files are under /var? I don't know. I thought lee did. It has some files in /var, too, whatever those are. It's all over the place :( -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) --

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread lee
Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com writes: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 13:25:42 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, lee wrote: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us writes: On 07/06/2014 12:43 AM, lee wrote: Not even the configuration files are where they belong.

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread lee
Garry T. Williams gtwilli...@gmail.com writes: On 7-6-14 10:39:11 lee wrote: Garry T. Williams gtwilli...@gmail.com writes: The analogy is placing a script in /etc/init.d and then linking its name in the /etc/rc5.d directory. I find this much simpler than the sysvinit schemes. You

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 11:07 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:38:16AM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: Garry T. Williams wrote: There are a slew of references on the 'Net Then give one ... Or if you could share your slides from the talk you gave, that would be nice.

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 04:57 +0200, poma wrote: On 06.07.2014 22:12, David Benfell wrote: poma writes: You can propose your terminology. You're asking him to do Poettering's technical writing when he isn't even sure he understands Poettering correctly. Not only is that an

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 04:39 +0200, poma wrote: On 06.07.2014 16:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 15:32 +0200, poma wrote: I repeat that I am not attacking systemd here, I'm criticizing the way it's described. It may seem perfectly clear to those who already

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:16:52 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Writing clear documentation is just as hard as writing good code. I disagree, it is actually much harder :-). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:27:53 +0200 lee wrote: Debian and centos use sysvinit; I don't know what others use. Not for long. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Glenn Holmer
On 07/07/2014 04:34 AM, lee wrote: The authors of systemd don't even understand what disabled means. A pretty bold statement. Disabled means the same thing it does in sysvinit: the service won't start at boot time.

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread poma
On 07.07.2014 13:19, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 04:39 +0200, poma wrote: On 06.07.2014 16:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 15:32 +0200, poma wrote: I repeat that I am not attacking systemd here, I'm criticizing the way it's described. It may seem

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 07/07/2014 01:10 PM, David Benfell wrote: Adrian Sevcenco writes: moreover you can separately configure a service without modifying the .service file (which usually is linked in /etc/systemd) : Possibly my information is out of date. I thought you were to put such service files in

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 15:11 +0200, poma wrote: You do not understand your own terminology!? :) Yeah sure, that's what I meant. Not. poc You see, you expect systemd to be understandable, however you alone weren't understandable here. :) Seriously? The only person who appears to

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:17:49 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I see it all now. The people who complain that they don't understand the terminology are lazy or ignorant or have an agenda. There's no way any of the responsibility for that lies with the docs themselves. Why didn't I realize that

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.07.2014, Balint Szigeti wrote: The only reason that I wanted to reach, make the system(s) better if we don't get rid of it. But keep in mind that there are alternatives. Thus, systemd isn't unavoidable. I'm permitting myself to mention that I've been using openrc on my Arch machine

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Edward M
On 07/07/14 13:39, Heinz Diehl wrote: But keep in mind that there are alternatives. Thus, systemd isn't unavoidable. I'm permitting myself to mention that I've been using openrc on my Arch machine quite some time, and it works great.. It may become problematic once KDBUS merges into

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread poma
On 07.07.2014 20:38, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:17:49 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I see it all now. The people who complain that they don't understand the terminology are lazy or ignorant or have an agenda. There's no way any of the responsibility for that lies with the

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2014, Edward M wrote: It may become problematic once KDBUS merges into the mainline kernel. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html This thread showcases once more the all-dominating and rude attitudes of some of the systemd devs. At least, the

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Edward M
On 07/07/14 15:00, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 07.07.2014, Edward M wrote: It may become problematic once KDBUS merges into the mainline kernel. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html This thread showcases once more the all-dominating and rude attitudes of

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 23:27 +0200, poma wrote: For you Roquefort will always be just a fungus. It's beyond your comprehension. We're done here. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread poma
On 08.07.2014 00:00, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 07.07.2014, Edward M wrote: It may become problematic once KDBUS merges into the mainline kernel. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html This thread showcases once more the all-dominating and rude attitudes of

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread David Benfell
poma writes: What is the sediment in the thread context? I suspect the word that was meant here is 'sentiment'. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the attachment. pgpGYgRS4st9h.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread David Benfell
poma writes: For you Roquefort will always be just a fungus. It's beyond your comprehension. Fascinating. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the attachment. pgp7H0uW05rdV.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread poma
On 08.07.2014 00:46, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 23:27 +0200, poma wrote: For you Roquefort will always be just a fungus. It's beyond your comprehension. We're done here. poc We!? :) poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread poma
On 08.07.2014 00:57, David Benfell wrote: poma writes: For you Roquefort will always be just a fungus. It's beyond your comprehension. Fascinating. Indeed. Tom tends to call a fungus everything he does not like. :) BTW you sound like Spock. :) poma -- users mailing list

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread poma
On 08.07.2014 00:53, David Benfell wrote: poma writes: What is the sediment in the thread context? I suspect the word that was meant here is 'sentiment'. Yeah it comes to mind, but then what would be the sentiment in the thread context? poma -- users mailing list

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread poma
On 08.07.2014 01:11, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 12:50:08AM +0200, poma wrote: On 08.07.2014 00:00, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 07.07.2014, Edward M wrote: It may become problematic once KDBUS merges into the mainline kernel.

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread poma
On 08.07.2014 01:15, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:08:48AM +0200, poma wrote: On 08.07.2014 00:53, David Benfell wrote: poma writes: What is the sediment in the thread context? I suspect the word that was meant here is 'sentiment'. Yeah it comes to mind, but then what would

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread poma
And people tend to say systmed developers are rude. :) s/systmed/systemd/ poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

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