Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 22, 2012 12:55 am, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:02:32PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > >> I said this before, but it sounds useful to try to reiterate: >> >> * It's probable that service-specific files should not be included in >> the init system package. >> * Service-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:35:55PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > >> What we're talking about with systemd vs openrc, and things like ssh'd >> first-time initialization is all within the realm of responsibility of >> the packager. It's a shift in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:35:55PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > What we're talking about with systemd vs openrc, and things like ssh'd > first-time initialization is all within the realm of responsibility of > the packager. It's a shift in the way the distribution itself works. > We're not talking a

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
> From: Walter Dnes [mailto:waltd...@waltdnes.org] > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:14 PM > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:35:55PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > > > What we're talking about with systemd vs openrc, and things like ssh'd > > first-time initialization is all within the realm of responsib

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:02:32PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > >> I said this before, but it sounds useful to try to reiterate: >> >> * It's probable that service-specific files should not be included in >> the init system package. >> * Service-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:02:32PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > I said this before, but it sounds useful to try to reiterate: > > * It's probable that service-specific files should not be included in > the init system package. > * Service-specific init files should probably be part of the > distro-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:40:27 -0400 > "Walter Dnes" wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:18:24AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote >> >> > I'm not sure where you're going with this. We're discussing an init >> > system and good, simple ways to st

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:40:27 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:18:24AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > I'm not sure where you're going with this. We're discussing an init > > system and good, simple ways to start services. App maintainers are > > going to continue to do wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:18:24AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > I'm not sure where you're going with this. We're discussing an init > system and good, simple ways to start services. App maintainers are > going to continue to do whatever they feel they ought to do, some might > write the systemd fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:58:22 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:35:26AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > > systemd is like Captain Picard of STTNG (Start Trek The Next > > > Generation) always saying "make it so". *HOW DO YOU "MAKE IT SO"? > > > That intelligence has to b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:33:11 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > > > And for the Lennart fanboi, his coding is > > > so questionable that "Lennartware" has become derogatory slang. (Of > > > course, you already know that.) > > > > And this is such a common term nowadays that when Googling for >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:35:26AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > systemd is like Captain Picard of STTNG (Start Trek The Next > > Generation) always saying "make it so". *HOW DO YOU "MAKE IT SO"? > > That intelligence has to be somewhere. So what alternative do you > > propose? A bash or ash

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 19, 2012 at 9:13 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:48:54 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > > > And for the Lennart fanboi, his coding is > > so questionable that "Lennartware" has become derogatory slang. (Of > > course, you already know that.) > > And this is such

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:49:56 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> > They ensure that there is an sshd configuration file and >> > give a meaningful message (including where to find the sample) if it >> > is not present, and check for the pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Eliezer Croitoru writes: > i want to try this systemd thingy, where do is start at? http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:49:56 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > They ensure that there is an sshd configuration file and > > give a meaningful message (including where to find the sample) if it > > is not present, and check for the presence of the hostkeys (again > > which are needed) and creat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:45:06 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > * Really good in-site customization: The service unit files are > trivially overrided with custom ones for specific installations, > without needing to touch the ones installed by systemd or a program. > With OpenRC, if I modify a /e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
i want to try this systemd thingy, where do is start at? i have a vm for testing and i might will adopt it on the real one. Thanks, Eliezer On 18/03/2012 09:28, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: it or at least try it, and given the level of discussion you present, I'm starting to think you don't actua

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:48:54 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > And for the Lennart fanboi, his coding is > so questionable that "Lennartware" has become derogatory slang. (Of > course, you already know that.) And this is such a common term nowadays that when Googling for Lennartware only one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:23:37 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 03:15:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > Here's what I want: > > > > When the machine starts, I want services X, Y and Z to run. The > > software figures out what order they must start in and how the deps > > w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 03:15:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > Here's what I want: > > When the machine starts, I want services X, Y and Z to run. The > software figures out what order they must start in and how the deps > work. Clean, neat, easy. systemd is like Captain Picard of STTNG (Star

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:25:32PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Mar 18, 2012 3:52 PM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > >> > >> If the config file doesn't exists, the service will not start, and you > >> can check the reason why

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:25:32 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > Or, said configuration files might be corrupted; the OpenRC > > initscript -- if written defensively -- will be able to detect that > > and (perhaps) fallback to something sane. systemd can't do that, > > short of putting all requi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> On Mar 18, 2012 3:52 PM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: >>> >>> If the config file doesn't exists, the service will not start, and you >>> can check the reason why with >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2012 3:52 PM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: >> >> If the config file doesn't exists, the service will not start, and you >> can check the reason why with >> >> systemctl status sshd.service >> >> And of course you can set another

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:45:06 -0600 > Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> * Finally, and what I think is the most fundamental difference between >> systemd and almost any other init system: The service unit files in >> systemd are *declarative*; you tell the daemon *what* to do,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:45:06 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > * Finally, and what I think is the most fundamental difference between > systemd and almost any other init system: The service unit files in > systemd are *declarative*; you tell the daemon *what* to do, not *how* > to do it. If the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 18, 2012 3:52 PM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > > If the config file doesn't exists, the service will not start, and you > can check the reason why with > > systemctl status sshd.service > > And of course you can set another mini sevice unit file to create the > hostkeys. But I repeat: I t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Graham Murray wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > >> * Really simple service unit files: The service unit files are really >> small, really simple, really easy to understand/modify. Compare the 9 >> lines of sshd.service: >> >> $ cat /etc/systemd/system/sshd.se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Graham Murray
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > * Really simple service unit files: The service unit files are really > small, really simple, really easy to understand/modify. Compare the 9 > lines of sshd.service: > > $ cat /etc/systemd/system/sshd.service > [Unit] > Description=SSH Secure Shell Service > After=s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > > > > On March 17, 2012 at 10:57 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés" > wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > On March 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM Nikos Chantziaras > wrote: >> > >> >> On 17/03/12 13:53,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 17, 2012 at 10:57 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. > wrote: > > > > > > > > On March 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > >> On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > Hello, Nikos. > >> > > >> > On Sat, Mar 17, 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > > > > On March 17, 2012 at 9:45 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés" > wrote: > > >> But again, remember that I'm biased: I keep an overlay to run Gentoo >> systems with only systemd; no OpenRC, no baselayout, no SysV. You guys >> can try it if you wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 17, 2012 at 9:45 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > But again, remember that I'm biased: I keep an overlay to run Gentoo > systems with only systemd; no OpenRC, no baselayout, no SysV. You guys > can try it if you want: > > http://xochitl.matem.unam.mx/~canek/gentoo-systemd-only/ > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > > > > On March 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> > Hello, Nikos. >> > >> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > >> >>> Happy Computer Users, sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 18, 2012 9:44 AM, "Joshua Murphy" wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 18/03/12 03:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> > > >> [...] > >> > >> * It tries to unify Linux behaviour among distros (some can argue that > >> this is a bad thing): Using sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Nikos. > > > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > >>> Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon. > > > >> No, we don't. I hope systemd arriv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 18/03/12 03:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> * It tries to unify Linux behaviour among distros (some can argue that >> this is a bad thing): Using systemd, the same >> configurations/techniques work the same in every

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2012 8:48 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Nikos Chantziaras >> wrote: >> > On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, Nikos. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 18, 2012 8:48 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > >> Hello, Nikos. > >> > >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> > Happy Computer Users, s

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/03/12 03:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Nikos. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon. No, we don

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> >> Hello, Nikos. >> >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon. >> >> >>> No, we don't.  I hope systemd arrive

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Nikos. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon. No, we don't. I hope systemd arrives soon. It's the best init system I ever saw. What's so good about it? What wil