Apologies, systemd is in centos/RHEL starting with V7. I just checked, somewhere in the last few months i misinterpreted something drastically, i was sure systemd was gone, sadly it's not. Guess i'll be installing etc. today, Centos 6.9 can't run the newest firefox due to a dependency that can't be satisfied in V6.9. I know i had 7.4 installed and had problems, somehow i missed the systemd incorporation. I guess init systems is a good place to start some deeper learning. Guess i made this years mistake ;) .
mad.scientist.at.large (a good madscientist) -- 11. Dec 2017 07:04 by mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com: > detail, the machine with centos is running 6.9, systemd was in V7+ i'll > have to check that. systemd was i believe in the later versions of V6. I > will check, it's been a hell of a year with many frustrations and my memory > of V7 might be wrong, i'll be installing the latest centos later today so > i'll check (i'll check before i install if possible). I do remember this > change, unless the stress had me severely confused, which might have > happened, it was bad enough that i had a massive heart attack and didn't even > know that was the problem, it's something of a miracle that i'm still here > (badly blocked arteries, and apparently i tried to get off the table!). > Thankfully my heart has recovered completely, i'm a tough old bird. > > mad.scientist.at.large (a good madscientist) > -- > > > 11. Dec 2017 06:48 by > mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com> : > > >> I've been using centos on one machine and checked. When it was there it >> showed up in the process manager. just checked system monitor ,it's using >> /sbin/init, manual for init on that machine says "upstart". man entry also >> says "init is event-based init daemon"..."this is different to dependency >> based init daemons", systemd is of course dependency based, unless i'm >> terribly confused, in which case it's time for gentoo or debian on all my >> boxes. (yes, i use desktops almost exclusively). >> >> i like big screens (multiple), proper keyboards, and a mouse or trackball.) >> I have a smart phone, too tiny screen, too tiny keyboard, and in this case >> somewhat damaged code. Besides, it's hard to put a 3TB drive in a phone, >> currently. Now when i get a brain jack one day and can run coprocessors >> etc. maybe (not one of the first!) . Other than desktops i have a couple >> lap tops, great when you need portable and exercise . >> >> mad.scientist.at.large (a good madscientist) >> -- >> >> >> 11. Dec 2017 06:30 by >> bradf...@fstab.me>> : >> >> >>> On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, at 13:22, >>> mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com>>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> interestingly, RH (and Centos) have both dumped systemd and gone to >>>> another system (I don't remember which one). In fact they've done so >>>> retroactively on earlier versions. Of course the continuing take over of >>>> linux by commercial interest is distorting development goals (time spent >>>> trying to destandardize/create new standards, make it harder to install >>>> and maintain, and new tools they don't have to give away). >>>> >>> >>> Have you got a source on that? I haven't read any news about RH switching >>> to yet another init system. >>> >>> I think they're fairly well wedded to Systemd, for better or for worse. >>> -- >>> Richard >>> >>>
