Package: systemd Version: 37-1 Severity: wishlist Currently, systemd masks or overrides most of the scripts in initscripts in favor of its own native implementations:
~$ dpkg -L initscripts | grep '^/etc/init\.d/' | while read x ; do test -e "/lib/systemd/system/$(basename $x .sh).service" && echo $x; done /etc/init.d/hostname.sh /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh /etc/init.d/mountnfs-bootclean.sh /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh /etc/init.d/single /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh /etc/init.d/mtab.sh /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh /etc/init.d/reboot /etc/init.d/mountall.sh /etc/init.d/halt /etc/init.d/killprocs /etc/init.d/mountall-bootclean.sh /etc/init.d/urandom /etc/init.d/rmnologin However, not all of them: ~$ dpkg -L initscripts | grep '^/etc/init\.d/' | while read x ; do test -e "/lib/systemd/system/$(basename $x .sh).service" || echo $x; done /etc/init.d/rc.local /etc/init.d/mountoverflowtmp /etc/init.d/sendsigs /etc/init.d/umountroot /etc/init.d/umountfs /etc/init.d/skeleton /etc/init.d/bootlogs /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh systemd already handles the functions of sendsigs, umountroot, umountfs, and umountnfs.sh, to the extent they need handling; please go ahead and mask those. systemd has code to handle rc.local as well, but doesn't enable it on Debian; please enable that for Debian and mask /etc/init.d/rc.local from initscripts. bootlogs does two things: update motd (which seems misplaced) and save kernel messages to /var/log/dmesg. systemd's logging completely supersedes the need for the latter. systemd also handles the former in a different way, but in any case a simple systemd service could easily preserve the existing handling of motd. So, please mask bootlogs and optionally handle the existing motd functionality. That just leaves mountoverflowtmp. Bug 653329 argues that it shouldn't exist at all, which I'd agree with. Debian also already provides the option of mounting a tmpfs there all the time, which would make mountoverflowtmp unnecessary. Also, I don't think the issue of filling up /tmp affects login as much as it may have in the past. Desktop environments already provide umpteen warnings about filling up the filesystem. And as far as I know, text-based logins work even with no /tmp (unless someone does something monumentally stupid with PAM), so SSHing to a server should always work, as should switching to a VT. I checked with systemd upstream, and they specifically don't want to have such functionality by default. Kay Sievers recommended just having tmpfs on /tmp as the default (as Debian currently does and systemd upstream will do in the future), and letting people who override that default keep both pieces if they fill up the filesystem. So, I'd suggest masking mountoverflowtmp in systemd. With all of those services masked or overriden, I think that systemd could then drop its dependency on the initscripts package. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages systemd depends on: ii initscripts 2.88dsf-22 ii libacl1 2.2.51-5 ii libaudit0 1:1.7.18-1.1 ii libc6 2.13-26 ii libcap2 1:2.22-1 ii libcryptsetup1 2:1.3.0-3.1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.16-1 ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7 ii libselinux1 2.1.0-4.1 ii libsystemd-daemon0 37-1 ii libsystemd-login0 37-1 ii libudev0 175-3 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-22 ii udev 175-3 ii util-linux 2.20.1-1.2 Versions of packages systemd recommends: pn libpam-systemd <none> Versions of packages systemd suggests: pn python 2.7.2-10 pn systemd-gui <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
