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posted by martyb on Friday February 08 2019, @05:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-all-geek-to-me dept.

https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/

LWN (Linux Weekly News) provides a written account of Benno Rice's talk. The former FreeBSD core developer gives some context around systemd and what FreeBSD should learn from it. He compares the affair to a Greek tragedy which contains much suffering followed by catharsis. His attitude toward systemd is generally not negative, but I won't cherry-pick any specific sections; you'll have to actually read the article for once.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by rufty on Friday February 08 2019, @01:32PM (2 children)

    by rufty (381) on Friday February 08 2019, @01:32PM (#798280)

    I wasted a couple of hours thanks to systemd. I had a very old debian (version "squeeze") system running a huge RS232 plotter. Whipped out the hdd and put in a new(er) one with debian "stretch" on. The plotter was not highly erratic, not connecting to the device, even. After much poking about I found systemd was helpfully spawning a getty on the serial device, presumably in case anyone ever wanted to log in through the plotter. And it seems that even a "service disable" is not enough to stop this. Think it was "system mask" or some such that stopped it eventually. Wanna bet this is a "WONTFIX"?

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  • (Score: 2) by rufty on Friday February 08 2019, @01:42PM

    by rufty (381) on Friday February 08 2019, @01:42PM (#798284)

    s/not/now/
    ;-)

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday February 09 2019, @12:00AM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday February 09 2019, @12:00AM (#798602) Journal

    >I found systemd was helpfully spawning a getty on the serial device

    lol a literal backdoor

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