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There were lots of good titles for this submission, as in "Breaking news: Poettering clueless?" to finally disprove Betteridge's law, or "systemd surprisingly not as good as advertised" or "Breaking new: systemd broken" or "Poettering censors critics after epic fail".
Systemd implementation of "rm -rf .*" will follow ".." to upper directory and erase /
How to reproduce:
# mkdir -p /foo/dir{1,2}
# touch /foo/.bar{1,2}
# cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/test.conf
R! /foo/.* - - - - -
Reboot.
After the issue was fixed, finally Poettering added this gem of wisdom:
I am not sure I'd consider this much of a problem. Yeah, it's a UNIX pitfall, but "rm -rf /foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?
The answer to this question, as many clarified for him, obviously is a loud "NO!". After being told a couple of times in no uncertain terms, the thread was closed for non-developers
poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators 4 hours ago
for which I proposed the "freedom-of-speech" department (although I admit it is a weak proposal).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday April 17 2017, @11:17PM (5 children)
One more of these, one more, I swear to Cthulhu, and I am going to figure out how to get FreeBSD going on my machine.
Tried that as a way of being systemd free. It was a lot easier than rumour has it but it took a bit more time than setting up a Linux distro. It's a nice system, but for my use case (seven different PCs, imaging not an option) the cost in time was going to be too high. But it's still on my radar if Slackware ever gets engulfed and devoured.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday April 18 2017, @09:04AM (4 children)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Tuesday April 18 2017, @10:53AM
Did you try FreeBSD or PC-BSD (or TruOS, as I think it's now branded).
FreeBSD. I can't remember why instead of PD-BSD, but it did seem to be a good idea at the time.
It was the thought of seven sets of download/install operations that made me look at Linux again - I chose Slackware as a way of learning Linux (and hopefully Unix) to make the the switch easier; but I liked it so much I stayed with it.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:26PM
TruOS
As opposed to all those fake OSs out there. Not quite as dumb a name as PCLinuxOS, I guess.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Thursday April 20 2017, @12:47PM (1 child)
TrueOS, for reasons of marketing...
I tried sticking it on an expendable netbook to see what would happen: the SATA driver shits itself and the suggested solution - dropping to a shell mid-boot and setting a kernel hint - makes it work. I later find out that there's some issue with UEFI systems and GRUB, so I should use the BSD bootloader...which it doesn't give me the option to install. OpenBSD installed on the same machine quickly and worked fine until I flattened the HD to try TrueOS instead. Maybe I'll try it again after they've updated the install images. And it works so well in a VM!
(Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:37PM
*sigh* Fat-fingered that comment...
The suggested fix *doesn't* make it work and it continues to throw errors about a controller that OpenBSD and a few Linux distributions (with and without systemd) can happily use without issue.