[HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

[Ray Strode]

Hi

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 24.07.10 00:14, Casey Dahlin (cdahlin at redhat.com) wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:54:50PM -0500, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
>> > On 7/23/2010 20:26, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> > > - You can boot into either of them by setting the "init=" kernel cmdline
>> > >    option according to your wishes. If you pass "init=/bin/systemd" you
>> > >    will boot into systemd, if you pass "init=/sbin/upstart" you will boot
>> > >    into upstart (note the /sbin vs. /bin!)
>> >
>> > Why is the systemd executable in /bin instead of /sbin?
>>
>> Without looking too closely I believe systemd eventually seeks to replace
>> things like gnome-session daemon. It has session management in mind as well as
>> system.
>
> Yes, this is the case. Normal users can and should start it and it might
> even be invoked by scripts such as gnomerc or suchlike. On most
> distributions (with the exception of Fedora) /sbin/ is not in $PATH and
> hence the right place for the systemd binary is /bin/ and nothing else.

Could put systemd in /sbin and have a symlink to it called

 /bin/sessiond

That would also allow the daemon to know which "mode" it's running in.
 Still, probably not worth it.

--Ray