| Steve Litt on 2 Aug 2018 13:16:41 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] LINUX ADMIN ADVICE |
On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 13:51:47 -0400 Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 1:41 PM Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> > wrote: > > > > You'll learn that *BSD's boot and startup are so simple people can > > do it themselves, without hiring a systemd expert. > > So simple that when a service dies, the OS doesn't know when it needs > to restart something it requires. Solved by initing with runit, s6, or either sysvinit or OpenRC plus daemontools-encore. > Oh, and if Fred sometimes needs to > use the microphone we should give him access to spy on whoever is > standing near the PC even when he isn't logged into the console... For one millionth of one percent of the salaries given to poettering and sievers and the crew, I could solve that problem ten different ways. > > But, hey, all you have to do is reboot the OS every time your network > drops... :) > My network drops all the time: No reboot necessary. On the desktop I just wait for it to come back. In edge cases I need to ip dev eth0 down;ip dev eth0 up, but not usually. On the laptop I can travel between wifis and just use wpa_gui to tune into a new access point. And if you don't want the laptop user to have root, just put wpa_gui in /etc/sudoers. And if both wifis were already configured on the laptop, it just magically switches from one to the other. I don't remember: I might need to issue a dhcpcd command to get that to happen. Because I use runit, if I were really concerned about that, I could make my own daemon that doesn't need to background itself to check for a good network connection, and if none issue a dhcpcd command. A little hokey but downright common sense compared to systemd. So of the three points mentioned, two are alternative facts and one can be solved by one guy with less than 1% of the dependencies, entanglements and complexity of systemd. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug