On 14.10.2013 22:19, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/14/2013 01:01 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz issued this missive: >> I don't have any fingerprint reader connected to my machine. Why is >> systemd starting this useless daemon in this case? I've heard somewhere >> that systemd tends to be more intelligent version of sysvinit that does >> only what is really needed to save time and system resources. Here are >> two lines from my system logs on F19 machine. >> >> systemd[1]: Starting Fingerprint Authentication Daemon... >> systemd[1]: Started Fingerprint Authentication Daemon. > > As root: > > # systemctl stop fprintd.service > # systemctl disable fprintd.service > > It doesn't use a lot of resources...leaving it running is not a huge > thing but yeah, if you don't have a scanner it is sorta silly. It reports it's dead and started at the same time. I know I can disable it but first I'd like to know it a little better. Then I'd like to know why systemd doesn't recognize this daemon as superflous and what triggers it's activation. # systemctl status fprintd.service fprintd.service - Fingerprint Authentication Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fprintd.service; static) Active: inactive (dead) Docs: man:fprintd(1) systemd[1]: Starting Fingerprint Authentication Daemon... systemd[1]: Started Fingerprint Authentication Daemon. fprintd[1870]: Launching FprintObject fprintd[1870]: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint fprintd[1870]: ** Message: entering main loop systemd[1]: Starting Fingerprint Authentication Daemon... systemd[1]: Started Fingerprint Authentication Daemon. fprintd[2945]: Launching FprintObject fprintd[2945]: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint fprintd[2945]: ** Message: entering main loop Mateusz Marzantowicz -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org