On 10/02/2012 06:35 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > >> I am just getting aggravated with the direction of linux with the >> cgroups etc. > # CONFIG_CGROUPS is not set
Lucky you. Until I get a LFS/BLFS desktop running I am stuck with cgroups > >> I'll be glad when I get LFS/BLFS built to KDE so I can ditch distros. > Try xfce. The build is faster and it seems to run cleanly without a lot > of unwanted bells and whistles. I ran it before, it's just the setting up that involved. >> It goes beyond kernel modules, systemd will respawn daemons that have >> stopped/failed. Opps slap me silly they are not daemons they are >> services now. It will only start a daemon/process/service if it is >> needed by some package on demand, so much for you if you would like it >> started at boot. > xinetd resurrected. That stuff is needed if you want to trigger 100 > processes for the ignorant user and don't want them all, but the big > distro wants to be able to offer them. Yes I use xinetd to start leafnode on a server >> The log file is binary and not just a text file so if >> something barfs you need to boot to something that has the systemd utils >> on the to read the log file to what happened. > I agree that that is, shall we say, short sighted. Of course there are > a few files hanging around for a long time that do the same thing. For > example wtmp, btmp. Yes but you really don't need to look at them most of the time > >> Also on the horizon is software packages are starting to change there >> startup away from sysvinit scripts or scripts in general. You can see >> this with Arch linux. > That's why we have LFS. That's why I building it ;) My way with a package manager ;) > >> I don't really care about boot up or shut down time... I care about the >> speed/ease of use while I am USING the computer. > The boot time is just one excuse being used to justify systemd. I agree > with your observations. > >> Ah feel better now ;) > I'm glad. > > -- Bruce > > > > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page