Re: systemd questions

2011-05-20 Thread Steve Clark
On 05/20/2011 12:00 AM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2011 14:59:57 +0200 Lennart Poettering wrote: I am sorry that reality bothers you so much, but it is the hard old real world ... See, I am so young, I still have the idealism that we can fix what is broken. And you're going to go abo

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-20 Thread Michal Schmidt
On 05/20/2011 06:00 AM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > And you're going to go about it by removing something that people have > been using for many years, replacing it with a vague promise of a > better solution. The ability to run programs before shutdown has not been removed. Looks like you missed all t

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Thu, 19 May 2011 14:59:57 +0200 Lennart Poettering wrote: > > I am sorry that reality bothers you so much, but it is the hard old real > > world ... > > See, I am so young, I still have the idealism that we can fix what is > broken. And you're going to go about it by removing something that

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Thu, 19 May 2011 14:16:30 +0100 Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:05:46AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > > Some other, more data-centered UPSs that handle multiple machines use > > completely proprietary protocols over ethernet for example. > > I thought we were talking about

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
Simo Sorce (sso...@redhat.com) said: > > > What race are we talking about exactly ? > > > > Host requests power down from UPS in 30s. Host then continues shut > > down. If the host now ends up taking more time then expected for > > shutting down it might still be busy at the time of the power goi

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 19.05.11 19:37, Tomasz Torcz (to...@pipebreaker.pl) wrote: > > > > This is not the case and never has been the case. The root disks > > > > traditionally could not be unmounted and hence MD/DM/MP and so on could > > > > not be disassembled before going down. > > > > > > > > Delaying shutd

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:04:33PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 16.05.11 14:30, Simo Sorce (sso...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 18:59 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > On Mon, 16.05.11 14:32, Michal Hlavinka (mhlav...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > > > when u

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Simo Sorce
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:16 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:05:46AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > > Some other, more data-centered UPSs that handle multiple machines use > > completely proprietary protocols over ethernet for example. > > I thought we were talking about a

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:05:46AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > Some other, more data-centered UPSs that handle multiple machines use > completely proprietary protocols over ethernet for example. I thought we were talking about a function that was called as the last thing before the kernel was hal

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 19.05.11 02:06, Matthew Garrett (mj...@srcf.ucam.org) wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > I am pretty sure we don't want to run Java programs at late boot, as > > > root. This would be really bad. > > > > You know, it's not like there is a choi

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 18.05.11 19:42, Simo Sorce (sso...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > This is not the case and never has been the case. The root disks > > > > traditionally could not be unmounted and hence MD/DM/MP and so on could > > > > not be disassembled before going down. > > > > > > > > Delaying shutdown b

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Simo Sorce
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 02:06 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > I am pretty sure we don't want to run Java programs at late boot, as > > > root. This would be really bad. > > > > You know, it's not like there is a choice for many mod

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-19 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 21:15 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 05/18/2011 06:42 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:48 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > >> On 05/18/2011 04:04 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >>> Host requests power down from UPS in 30s. Host then continues shut > >>> dow

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:42:02PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > We are however talking about a lot of different upses and while it is > not specifically fedora's problem we do need to have this handled > before rhel7, for example, is run on serious systems. If it's a functional requirement, it'll g

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 02:06 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > I am pretty sure we don't want to run Java programs at late boot, as > > > root. This would be really bad. > > > > You know, it's not like there is a choice for many mod

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:27:23PM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/18/2011 09:06 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > >> > >> You know, it's not like there is a choice for many models ... > > > > That's really not a given. For anything

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/18/2011 06:42 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:48 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 05/18/2011 04:04 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>> Host requests power down from UPS in 30s. Host then continues shut >>> down. If the host now ends up taking more time then expected for >>> s

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/18/2011 09:06 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: >> >> You know, it's not like there is a choice for many models ... > > That's really not a given. For anything short of us having to send http > requests, there's no fundamental reason wh

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > I am pretty sure we don't want to run Java programs at late boot, as > > root. This would be really bad. > > You know, it's not like there is a choice for many models ... That's really not a given. For anything short of us having to

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:48 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 05/18/2011 04:04 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Host requests power down from UPS in 30s. Host then continues shut > > down. If the host now ends up taking more time then expected for > > shutting down it might still be busy at the ti

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 23:04 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 16.05.11 14:30, Simo Sorce (sso...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 18:59 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > On Mon, 16.05.11 14:32, Michal Hlavinka (mhlav...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > > > when ups reci

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/18/2011 04:04 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Host requests power down from UPS in 30s. Host then continues shut > down. If the host now ends up taking more time then expected for > shutting down it might still be busy at the time of the power going > away. It's a race between "UPS powering o

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 16.05.11 14:30, Simo Sorce (sso...@redhat.com) wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 18:59 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mon, 16.05.11 14:32, Michal Hlavinka (mhlav...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > when ups recieves command for shutdown, it does not shutdown power > > > immediately, b

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 18:59 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 16.05.11 14:32, Michal Hlavinka (mhlav...@redhat.com) wrote: > > when ups recieves command for shutdown, it does not shutdown power > > immediately, but after 30 seconds. Given that this command should be > > executed > > af

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-17 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 17.05.11 15:42, Michal Hlavinka (mhlav...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > 5) in old initscripts, there was /etc/init.d/halt with section for ups > > > shutdown. With that script gone, was that functionality ported to > > > systemd > > > somehow? > > > > Well, any such code is just inherently

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-17 Thread Michal Hlavinka
> > 5) in old initscripts, there was /etc/init.d/halt with section for ups > > shutdown. With that script gone, was that functionality ported to > > systemd > > somehow? > > Well, any such code is just inherently broken. It *cannot* work. A > number of kernel subsystems hook into the shutdown code

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 16.05.11 14:32, Michal Hlavinka (mhlav...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > 2) does systemd have support for conditions in service files? It seem > > > it's not supported right now. Is there any plan for this? > > > > I am not entirely sure what you understand by "condition", > > for example c

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-16 Thread Michal Hlavinka
> > 2) does systemd have support for conditions in service files? It seem > > it's not supported right now. Is there any plan for this? > > I am not entirely sure what you understand by "condition", for example condition based on string/variable in file, so: a) EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/some

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 15.05.11 19:28, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Lennart Poettering > wrote: > > Well, adding 30s-sleep()s here and there and everywhere is a hack, not a > > clean fix. But if you have a lot of sync to disk, and/or a slow disk, > > then 30s might

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Well, adding 30s-sleep()s here and there and everywhere is a hack, not a > clean fix. But if you have a lot of sync to disk, and/or a slow disk, > then 30s might not be enough and you are fucked. I can't see where would that "a lot of sy

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 15.05.11 17:05, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johan...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On 05/15/2011 04:08 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Well, but ExecStartPre= doesn't help you with this. As it is run only > > after the service is already stopped. > > > > It has been suggested that we add ExecResta

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/15/2011 05:05 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 05/15/2011 04:08 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> Well, but ExecStartPre= doesn't help you with this. As it is run only >> after the service is already stopped. >> >> It has been suggested that we add ExecRestartPre=, i.e. something we run

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/15/2011 04:08 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Well, but ExecStartPre= doesn't help you with this. As it is run only > after the service is already stopped. > > It has been suggested that we add ExecRestartPre=, i.e. something we run > before stopping a service for a restart. It has been on th

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 15.05.11 18:29, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Lennart Poettering > wrote: > >> 5) in old initscripts, there was /etc/init.d/halt with section for ups > >> shutdown. With that script gone, was that functionality ported to systemd > >> somehow?

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> 5) in old initscripts, there was /etc/init.d/halt with section for ups >> shutdown. With that script gone, was that functionality ported to systemd >> somehow? > > Well, any such code is just inherently broken. It *cannot* work. Such co

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 15.05.11 15:55, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johan...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On 05/15/2011 01:59 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Thu, 12.05.11 17:04, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johan...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > >> You can run ExecStartPre= before starting a service for syntax checking > >> b

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/15/2011 01:59 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 12.05.11 17:04, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johan...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> You can run ExecStartPre= before starting a service for syntax checking >> before starting the service like we do for .. >> >> ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/radiusd -C >> Ex

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 12.05.11 17:04, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johan...@gmail.com) wrote: > You can run ExecStartPre= before starting a service for syntax checking > before starting the service like we do for .. > > ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/radiusd -C > ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/named-checkconf /etc/named.conf >

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 12.05.11 15:28, Michal Hlavinka (mhlav...@redhat.com) wrote: > Hi, Heya, > I'm working with nut upstream to test sysv->systemd changes, but I found some > problems and they've came up with a few questions too. > > 1) does systemd support alternative to "service sthd configtest" or othe

Re: Systemd questions following 15B upgrade

2011-05-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 13.05.11 23:57, Philip Prindeville (philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com) wrote: > I installed F15B, but now I'm seeing: > > May 13 23:01:01 mail /usr/sbin/crond[5243]: pam_systemd(crond:session): > Moving new user session for root into control group /user/root/18. > May 13 23:01:01 mail

Re: Systemd questions following 15B upgrade

2011-05-14 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 07:58 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 14/05/11 06:57, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > Also, now that we don't use upstart, what's the equivalent of: > > > > chkconfig service on > > > > systemctl enable\disable foo.service And at least for now, you can still do chkconfig a

Re: Systemd questions following 15B upgrade

2011-05-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On 14/05/11 06:57, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Also, now that we don't use upstart, what's the equivalent of: > > chkconfig service on > systemctl enable\disable foo.service -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://adm

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-12 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/12/2011 03:12 PM, Michal Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2011 15:28:54 +0200 Michal Hlavinka wrote: >> > 1) does systemd support alternative to "service sthd configtest" or >> > other special actions? > No. > You can run ExecStartPre= before starting a service for syntax checking before

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-12 Thread Michal Schmidt
On Thu, 12 May 2011 15:28:54 +0200 Michal Hlavinka wrote: > 1) does systemd support alternative to "service sthd configtest" or > other special actions? No. > 2) does systemd have support for conditions in service files? It seem > it's not supported right now. Is there any plan for this? Can you

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-12 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Hi, 2011/5/12 Michal Hlavinka : > Hi, > > I'm working with nut upstream to test sysv->systemd changes, but I found some > problems and they've came up with a few questions too. > > > 1) does systemd support alternative to "service sthd configtest" or other > special actions? > > > 2) does systemd