[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 14.07.10 15:42, Kevin Fenzi (kevin at scrye.com) wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:30:44 +0200
> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> 
> > Well, if this is all this is about then I wonder why this is there
> > anyway? If no gdm is installed, then runlevel 5 and 3 should be
> > identical anyway, so what's the point of fixing the default runlevel
> > there?
> 
> Because you may have gdm installed and not wish to currently boot with
> it? I just tried systemd on a test machine here... it came up fine, but
> it started gdm, even though I normally don't want it to do so. 

But anaconda doesn't even offer you that functionality...

> How can I tell systemd not to boot in graphical? 
> 
> rm /etc/systemd/system/default.target
> ln
> -s /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

Yepp. I'd do it with ln -sf however, makes it shorter:

 $ ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

Isnt there some real beauty in the simplicity of this line? ;-)

> Perhaps someone could put together a wiki page for lazy sysadmins with
> a Q&A? ie, I used to do this in upstart/sysvinit, how do I do it with
> systemd? 

I have added this now to our Tips & Tricks list:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TipsAndTricks

> Anyhow, the machine came up fine, so thats pretty nice compatibility
> wise. ;) 

Yay!

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.