Re: userspace virtual terminals

2014-11-07 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Ian Jackson: This argument is not really about service startup, though. It's > about systemd's graphical console management, its replacements for > syslog, cron, ntpd, acpid, etc etc etc. Marco d'Itri: Kernel developers have been explaining for years that we need a user > space console to

Re: mysqld.service

2014-11-04 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Ritesh Raj Sarraf: How are other packagers taking care of it ? There are a lot of server > daemons that need some sort of housekeeping. What I can recall > immediate are: mysql, open-iscsi, DM multipath etc.. Last feedback > (IIRC _not_ from the systemd maintainers) I had on it was to write a

Re: existing alternatives

2014-11-04 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Svante Signell: The more important that Debian does not drop support for sysvinit > then, until alternatives have stabilized :) (and systemd/uselessd is > deferred to PID 2). PID 1 should be as small as possible, see a > proposed implementation in: http://ewontfix.com/14/ That proposed impleme

Re: runit

2014-11-04 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Gerrit Pape: What is the reason that one can't easily run logind, or even better > a systemd process running logind and possibly other services, under > the runsv program from the runit init scheme, or through > /etc/inittab? One cannot run systemd under runit because it detects its PID and b

Re: Re: Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-11-03 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: Distribution packages have been almost all converted to systemd > services, with a handful of less-used-packages remaining [1]. Jóhann B Guðmundsson, the erstwhile feature owner for Fedora's System 5 rc to systemd units conversion project, states that the conversi

Re: Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Daniel Kahn Gillmor: The implication of this proposed GR seems to be that those tools > would be unfit for inclusion within debian unless someone erects all > the additional scaffolding that runit provides (process supervision, > pipelined logfiles with autorotation and log msgs just sent to >