* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?
@ 2017-12-11 21:03 99% ` Alan Mackenzie
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From: Alan Mackenzie @ 2017-12-11 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hello, Neil.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 18:56:15 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:13:30 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > I've no idea how good systemd is. It's not been through the normal
> > process of choice and selection that other successful packages have. It
> > was forced on people. But being forced to have a binary system log,
> > being forced (so I have heard) to have an http server running, ....,
> This may come as a surprise to some, but some things you hear on
> t'internet are not true...
:-)
> For example, the http server is there to allow access to logs from
> another machine without needing to grant SSH access. It is not enabled by
> default.
OK. But it's still there taking up RAM, and (more importantly) makes a
systemd system a broader target for attacks. Whether a system has an
http server (or, for that matter, an SSH server), for whatever purpose,
should be for the system administrator to decide. I suspect this isn't
the case for systemd's http server.
In any case, I don't want an http server on my system: I have no http to
serve. I installed sshd as one of the first things on my new system, to
facilitate the transfer of files to it (and, probably, reading logs from
it remotely).
I don't want a binary logging daemon either: that means having to learn
a special purpose utility to be able to read its logs, and, in general,
not being able to read that log from a remote machine.
There are likely other inflexibilities about systemd that I don't want
either. That's one reason why I'm sticking with openrc. The politics
of it is another.
> --
> Neil Bothwick
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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