systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

[Steve Clark]

On 06/14/2011 04:06 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 13.06.11 19:02, Denys Vlasenko (dvlasenk at redhat.com) wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>>>> We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of the
>>>>> most trivial system calls known to men and doing this with a
>>>> separate
>>>>> binary is just absurd. This way we also can ensure that the hostname
>>>> is
>>>>> always initialised which is very useful for early boot logging and
>>>> other
>>>>> stuff. On systemd you get the guarantee that the hostname is always
>>>> set
>>>>> up if you run in userspace,
>>>> You can't possibly know what kind of (possibly dynamic) hostname
>>>> admin might want to assign to his machine. The static hostname
>>>> may be as useless as default "(none)" which is set by kernel.
>>>> Anyway, logging with default hostname is not a catastrophe.
>>>>
>>>> Why do you set up stuff no one asked you to?
>>> Changing a machine hostname at random times is just asking for trouble.
>> I just tried it. So far flames don't shoot out of my notebook.
> Wow, that's convincing proof.
>
> Lennart
>
One question - does systemd run /etc/rc.local script?
If not where do I put my own little things I want to happen at boot up.
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Stephen Clark
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