Hello, Neil. On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 18:56:15 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:13:30 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > I've no idea how good systemd is. It's not been through the normal > > process of choice and selection that other successful packages have. It > > was forced on people. But being forced to have a binary system log, > > being forced (so I have heard) to have an http server running, ...., > This may come as a surprise to some, but some things you hear on > t'internet are not true... :-) > For example, the http server is there to allow access to logs from > another machine without needing to grant SSH access. It is not enabled by > default. OK. But it's still there taking up RAM, and (more importantly) makes a systemd system a broader target for attacks. Whether a system has an http server (or, for that matter, an SSH server), for whatever purpose, should be for the system administrator to decide. I suspect this isn't the case for systemd's http server. In any case, I don't want an http server on my system: I have no http to serve. I installed sshd as one of the first things on my new system, to facilitate the transfer of files to it (and, probably, reading logs from it remotely). I don't want a binary logging daemon either: that means having to learn a special purpose utility to be able to read its logs, and, in general, not being able to read that log from a remote machine. There are likely other inflexibilities about systemd that I don't want either. That's one reason why I'm sticking with openrc. The politics of it is another. > -- > Neil Bothwick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
