Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

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On Tue, 14.06.11 07:14, Steve Clark (sclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> On 06/14/2011 04:06 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >On Mon, 13.06.11 19:02, Denys Vlasenko (dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> >>>On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >>>>>We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of the
> >>>>>most trivial system calls known to men and doing this with a
> >>>>separate
> >>>>>binary is just absurd. This way we also can ensure that the hostname
> >>>>is
> >>>>>always initialised which is very useful for early boot logging and
> >>>>other
> >>>>>stuff. On systemd you get the guarantee that the hostname is always
> >>>>set
> >>>>>up if you run in userspace,
> >>>>You can't possibly know what kind of (possibly dynamic) hostname
> >>>>admin might want to assign to his machine. The static hostname
> >>>>may be as useless as default "(none)" which is set by kernel.
> >>>>Anyway, logging with default hostname is not a catastrophe.
> >>>>
> >>>>Why do you set up stuff no one asked you to?
> >>>Changing a machine hostname at random times is just asking for trouble.
> >>I just tried it. So far flames don't shoot out of my notebook.
> >Wow, that's convincing proof.
> >
> >Lennart
> >
> One question - does systemd run /etc/rc.local script?
> If not where do I put my own little things I want to happen at boot up.

Yes, it does run that on Fedora by default.

Lennart

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