Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-12 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 03:04:18PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > More bloat to fail, it may come as a shock, but there are computers > running Linux and not network connected at all (as in no NIC > devices). Bloat for no benefit. This seems to be based around a misconception. Like most systemd fea

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/15/2014 08:27 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: I've always called systemd the world's fist computer fungus - it wants to grow over everything. Resistance is futile! Your functionality will be assimilated. Or in this case approximated. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear f

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik said: Making the rounds of various technical mailing lists yesterday, with a subject that's typically a variation of "Just for yucks, and giggles" is a link to a commit to systemd's git, adding DNS caching to systemd; in one, huge 857 line gl

Re: please stop this thread; constructive discussion can take place in a new one [was Re: Latest systemd news]

2014-12-02 Thread Glenn Holmer
On 12/02/2014 06:23 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > Let's stop this thread. New discussion about specific functionality > actually intended to discuss, share, and learn rather than inflame is > fine, but since this *is* a topic which attracts all manner of strong > feelings, please take *extra* care in

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Mike Wohlgemuth
On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 10:22 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 12/02/2014 06:47 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > * Simplifying startup configuration > > Simplifying startup? No. Simplifying startup configuration. Woogie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/02/2014 06:47 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:40:53AM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 12/02/14 02:45, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Well, it was originally meant to be default in Fedora 14 and there were many discussions about it. it is been years since that point. Perh

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 05:34:53PM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 12/02/14 15:47, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >>Well, to be frank, it was sold to solve the issue of start up time of > >>computers. > ... > >This is incorrect. The actual problems systemd was meant to solve > >include but are not

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 12/02/14 15:47, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >> Well, to be frank, it was sold to solve the issue of start up time of >>> computers. >>> >> ... > >> This is incorrect. The actual problems systemd was meant to solve >> include but are no

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/02/14 15:47, Paul W. Frields wrote: Well, to be frank, it was sold to solve the issue of start up time of computers. ... This is incorrect. The actual problems systemd was meant to solve include but are not limited to: No, it was sold to us, in the beginning, with the promise of faster

Re: please stop this thread; constructive discussion can take place in a new one [was Re: Latest systemd news]

2014-12-02 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/02/14 13:23, Matthew Miller wrote: But what happens when they are ready? Will they be part of Fedora then? Lars, we have a change control process for precisely this reason. The systemd developers and packagers in Fedora are (mostly) conscientious about going through it. My comment and c

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:40:53AM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 12/02/14 02:45, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >Well, it was originally meant to be default in Fedora 14 and there were > >many discussions about it. it is been years since that point. Perhaps > >people didn't pay attention to it an

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > > systemd IS a part of Fedora general release. Yes but not the feature that was being discussed. > It was, in the beginning. It then started to take over more and more other > functions. Not true. It was never sold as only abo

Re: Better tools needed - Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> systemctl list-unit-files >> > > Lists 315 services, most that I can't control. And does it no longer > matter if you are in single user, multiuser, etc mode on how the services > run? As I pointed out before, you *can* control t

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/02/14 15:25, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Users list is for discussing features that are shipped in Fedora general release. systemd IS a part of Fedora general release. >Well, to be frank, it was sold to solve the issue of start up time of computer To be frank, it was never sold as only a so

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > The discussion is about a component already in use in Fedora, systemd, and new features of it. How can this not be on-topic here? You keep asking the same question that was answered before. Users list is for discussing features th

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > > > Where should users be discussing things that may negatively impact > them? That is too broad. In this case, we are talking about features not included within Fedora. So the right place is upstream Rahul -- users mailing list users@

please stop this thread; constructive discussion can take place in a new one [was Re: Latest systemd news]

2014-12-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 09:15:45PM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > Well, if they are not yet ready or not general purpose enough to be > used by default they should not be adopted. We have enough of not > yet ready products and does not need any more. > > But what happens when they are ready? W

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 07:00:39PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > "community assistance, encouragement, and advice" — not to mention the > > Friends foundation — that's a different story. > I would suggest that the thread is off the rails long time back and not > enforcing the list guidelines and

Re: Better tools needed - Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/02/2014 12:42 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/01/2014 05:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Then there was good old 'chkconfig' that produced a nice tablular report of services that can be controlled. I have yet to find anything close to this with systemd. systemctl list-unit-files Lists 315

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/02/14 02:45, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Well, it was originally meant to be default in Fedora 14 and there were many discussions about it. it is been years since that point. Perhaps people didn't pay attention to it and didn't realize it but it wasn't snuck in when people weren't looking. Ther

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/02/14 01:00, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I would suggest that the thread is off the rails long time back and not enforcing the list guidelines and keeping the list on topic leads to us, No, it is not "Off the rails". That you find the issue unimportant does not mean that others have the same v

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/01/14 22:32, Rahul Sundaram wrote: By that account why would rawhide or test releases be considered offtopic? How about development kernel or glibc features? The test list is about test releases of Fedora. The devel list is for the development releases of Fedora (rawhide). All as I me

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 December 2014 at 16:27, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: >> >> My question was "What part(s) of the systemd suite has not been adopted". >> Note the not part. > > > Yes. I understood that fine. I was pointing out which parts have bee

Re: Better tools needed - Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/01/2014 05:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Then there was good old 'chkconfig' that produced a nice tablular report of services that can be controlled. I have yet to find anything close to this with systemd. systemctl list-unit-files -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Gary Hodder
On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 20:14 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > Just to point out how explosive the systemd issue is in the Linux > community, note that Debian has been forked just beause of this: > > https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141127.212941.f55acc3a.en.html > Thanks for the link, not all

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > Just to point out how explosive the systemd issue is in the Linux > community, note that Debian has been forked just beause of this: > > https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141127.212941.f55acc3a.en.html > > Yes, I know, this isn't Fed

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Dave Ihnat
Just to point out how explosive the systemd issue is in the Linux community, note that Debian has been forked just beause of this: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141127.212941.f55acc3a.en.html Yes, I know, this isn't Fedora. But if it's that controversial that an enire distro will spl

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > That is intensely needed. I think either new material explaining exactly > why systemd is needed, and good, is critical. If it already exists, > collected pointers are just as good (if not better) There are dozens of references about h

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 08:45:28PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Well, it was originally meant to be default in Fedora 14 and there were > many discussions about it. it is been years since that point. Perhaps > people didn't pay attention to it and didn't realize it but it wasn't snuck > in when

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > I agree, but I will point out that incorporating systemd is an...extremely > controversial...decision. And, the entire arena seems to be fraught with > extreme opinions. Couple that with the fact that many here seem not to > have known i

Re: Better tools needed - Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >And the list is hugh compared to what services are really up to user control. I mean listed items like: Yes that list is larger because systemd does allow you to control more than sysvinit does directly. Try it out > Oh, and that

Re: Better tools needed - Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/01/2014 08:23 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: HI On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Perhaps at some point we will get better tools for using systemd. Thanks for bringing in something useful to the discussion that I can address: I mean compare: systemctl

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 08:19:47PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Sure. I wasn't referring to your post. Your effort is appreciated. Ah; thank you. I really am tired of drama, and try not to contribute. > I don't disagree with all that. I do disagree that the current approach > taken in the b

Re: Better tools needed - Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Perhaps at some point we will get better tools for using systemd. Thanks for bringing in something useful to the discussion that I can address: I mean compare: > > systemctl restart sshd.service > > with > > service sshd restart > >

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > > Ranting about ... > > Excuse me; I worked very hard to *not* rant. Sure. I wasn't referring to your post. Your effort is appreciated. > It intended to be, and I > believe was, a reasoned and rational attempt to explain why someone

Better tools needed - Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/01/2014 07:23 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 07:00:39PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I would suggest that the thread is off the rails long time back and not enforcing the list guidelines and keeping the list on topic leads to us, unable to point our own users to the list fo

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 07:55:51PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Good thing nobody did that then, right? Well, that's good. > With all due respect, you can't argue against your own made up quote. (Hands up), no arguing. > Ranting about ... Excuse me; I worked very hard to *not* rant. It inte

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > Just telling them to "shut up, out of scope" seems a > bad idea. Good thing nobody did that then, right? With all due respect, you can't argue against your own made up quote. As to the question of response from Red Hat, in case you hav

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 07:00:39PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I would suggest that the thread is off the rails long time back and not > enforcing the list guidelines and keeping the list on topic leads to us, > unable to point our own users to the list for help because they have to > wade throu

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > If the thread goes off the rails and outside of the scope of > "community assistance, encouragement, and advice" — not to mention the > Friends foundation — that's a different story. > I would suggest that the thread is off the rails long

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:32:49PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > I am keen on discussing how new features in systemd (or any other > > packages used by Fedora for that matter) will affect the users of > > Fedora. The best place for that is this users list. > By that account why would rawhide or

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > I am keen on discussing how new features in systemd (or any other packages > used by Fedora for that matter) will affect the users of Fedora. The best > place for that is this users list. By that account why would rawhide or test

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/01/14 22:13, Rahul Sundaram wrote: In a similar way, development branches of systemd has its own mailing list for discussing such functionality called systemd-devel list. Use that list if you are so keen on discussing development branches of systemd. I am keen on discussing how new feat

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > As systemd is (a huge) part of Fedora, and what we discuss is a new > feature in systemd, it will, eventually, That is by no means a good assumption but even if you take that assumption as a given, it is not a good justification. T

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/01/14 21:47, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I will limit my answer to one point to keep it brief. Despite your insistence, development features that are part of upstream project but not in any Fedora release *cannot* affect Fedora users by definition Hence they are offtopic for this list. If you

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > > The issue being discussed in this thread has nothing to do with test > releases and has because of that nothing to do on the test list. It has > nothing to do with the development releases (rawhide) and has because of > that nothing

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/01/14 17:27, Rahul Sundaram wrote: There are several different components which haven't been adopted nor even proposed because they are simply not yet ready or not general purpose enough to be used by default. Well, if they are not yet ready or not general purpose enough to be used by de

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > My question was "What part(s) of the systemd suite has not been adopted". > Note the not part. Yes. I understood that fine. I was pointing out which parts have been adopted so you can count the rest as not adopted. There are se

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/01/14 15:50, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: What part(s) of the systemd suite has not been adopted by Fedora so far? What says that this "component" will not be adopted by fedora? Look up feature pages to understand which component

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > What part(s) of the systemd suite has not been adopted by Fedora so far? > What says that this "component" will not be adopted by fedora? Look up feature pages to understand which components have been adopted. https://fedoraproje

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-01 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/01/14 02:31, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 11/18/14 04:20, Rahul Sundaram wrote: user mailing list of a distribution which doesn't even use the component at all yet. Well, how long do you think it

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 11/18/14 04:20, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> user mailing list of a distribution which doesn't even use the component >> at all yet. >> > > Well, how long do you think it will take until the "component" is being > used then? System

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-30 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 11/18/14 04:20, Rahul Sundaram wrote: user mailing list of a distribution which doesn't even use the component at all yet. Well, how long do you think it will take until the "component" is being used then? Systemd have had a tendency to very quickly find its way into Fedora, and probably t

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Right. Like "systemd developers" have such an established track record of > listening to feedback from the community, > That has no connection to what I said. If you have already made up your mind, that's fine but if you are wondering

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: Hi On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Chris Adams wrote:   Why did the systemd project add this to the scope of the project for "a system and service manager for Linux"?  This was something that could have been easily asked to systemd developers rather than t

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/17/2014 06:54 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Chris Adamswrote: Why did the systemd project add this to the scope of the project for "a system and service manager for Linux"? This was something that could have been easily asked to systemd

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Why did the systemd > project add this to the scope of the project for "a system and service > manager for Linux"? This was something that could have been easily asked to systemd developers rather than the long rant that was posted.

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-17 Thread Frank Pikelner
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Juan Orti said: > > systemd-resolved is a daemon for resolving DNS. What's wrong about > > caching? All DNS servers perform caching. > > > > It's like if you have unbound at 127.0.0.1 as local resolver, that's a > > very com

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Juan Orti said: > systemd-resolved is a daemon for resolving DNS. What's wrong about > caching? All DNS servers perform caching. > > It's like if you have unbound at 127.0.0.1 as local resolver, that's a > very common setup. Well, that's the point. We already have multiple, pe

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-17 Thread Juan Orti
El sáb, 15-11-2014 a las 08:53 -0500, Sam Varshavchik escribió: > Making the rounds of various technical mailing lists yesterday, with a > subject that's typically a variation of "Just for yucks, and giggles" is a > link to a commit to systemd's git, adding DNS caching to systemd; in one, > h

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Pete Travis writes: Whatever the intent, I hope that everyone discovers it from reading actual documentation instead of inflammatory comments on indignant speculation about the intent behind a one sentence feature description like " resolved: add DNS cache ".  I'm not necessarily putting you

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/15/2014 08:27 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: I've always called systemd the world's fist computer fungus - it wants to grow over everything. Resistance is futile! Your functionality will be assimilated. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 15, 2014 6:54 AM, "Sam Varshavchik" wrote: > > Making the rounds of various technical mailing lists yesterday, with a subject that's typically a variation of "Just for yucks, and giggles" is a link to a commit to systemd's git, adding DNS caching to systemd; in one, huge 857 line glop. Here

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-15 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 08:53:59AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Making the rounds of various technical mailing lists yesterday, with > a subject that's typically a variation of "Just for yucks, and > giggles" is a link to a commit to systemd's git, adding DNS caching > to systemd; in one, huge 8

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 10:18:11 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: > Yet more unreasonable scope creep for the systemd project, and this time > reinventing the wheel for no good reason. I've always called systemd the world's fist computer fungus - it wants to grow over everything. -- users mailing list users

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik said: > Making the rounds of various technical mailing lists yesterday, with > a subject that's typically a variation of "Just for yucks, and > giggles" is a link to a commit to systemd's git, adding DNS caching > to systemd; in one, huge 857 line glop. Here's its

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-11-15 Thread Bob Marcan
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:53:59 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Making the rounds of various technical mailing lists yesterday, with a > subject that's typically a variation of "Just for yucks, and giggles" isa > link to a commit to systemd's git, adding DNS caching to systemd; in one, > huge 857

Latest systemd news

2014-11-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Making the rounds of various technical mailing lists yesterday, with a subject that's typically a variation of "Just for yucks, and giggles" is a link to a commit to systemd's git, adding DNS caching to systemd; in one, huge 857 line glop. Here's its entire commit message: "resolved: add DNS