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systemd 256.1: Now Slightly Less Likely to Delete /home

posted by hubie on Saturday June 22 2024, @10:05PM   Printer-friendly

owl writes:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/20/systemd_2561_data_wipe_fix/

Following closely after the release of version 256, version 256.1 fixes a handful of bugs. One of these is emphatically not systemd-tmpfiles recursively deleting your entire home directory. That's a feature.

The 256.1 release is now out, containing some 38 minor changes and bugfixes. Among these are some changes to the help text around the systemd-tmpfiles command, which describes itself as a tool to "Create, delete, and clean up files and directories." Red Hat's RHEL documentation describes it as a tool for managing and cleaning up your temporary files.

That sounds innocuous enough, right?

It isn't, as Github user jedenastka discovered on Friday. He filed bug #33349 and the description makes for harrowing reading, not just because of the tool's entirely intended behavior, but also because of the systemd maintainers' response, which could be summarized as "you're doing it wrong".

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Sunday June 23 2024, @02:31AM (3 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Sunday June 23 2024, @02:31AM (#1361623)

    Debian adopted Systemd because it was an init system that made things faster, and in their view better.

    Debian adopted systemd in a vote where there were a variety of accusations of shenanigans in the voting. It was controversial enough that Devuan forked off soon after as a result.

    I did find it interesting that Lennart seemed to actually be the voice of reason on the bug report, which is a bit unusual given the number of times he's been told off for treating bug reports as not a bug. But I guess his own career is pretty secure at this point, which was really the point of the whole systemd exercise, so he now doesn't have to be as much of a jerk about things.

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  • (Score: 2) by DrkShadow on Sunday June 23 2024, @06:16AM (1 child)

    by DrkShadow (1404) on Sunday June 23 2024, @06:16AM (#1361642)

    honestly, a lot of things are docker-oriented now-adays. Docker and kubernetes.

    So instead of basing all of my projects on an Ubuntu image, or even a Debian image any more, I'm going to start basing them on a Devuan image. Let those usage metrics RISE!!!

    It looks like Alpine Linux is also *not* systemd-corrupted. So that really leaves only Redhat, Debian, and Arch(???) (and things based on them).

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by owl on Sunday June 23 2024, @03:39PM

      by owl (15206) on Sunday June 23 2024, @03:39PM (#1361677)

      Slackware is also blissfully systemd free.

  • (Score: 4, Touché) by gtomorrow on Sunday June 23 2024, @06:21AM

    by gtomorrow (2230) on Sunday June 23 2024, @06:21AM (#1361643)

    When in the history of the world have you ever had a jerk of position become less so when higher up in the hierarchy?

    Just askin' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯