Re: [gentoo-user] [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
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> Canek Peláez Valdés said:
>> That doesn't mean anything; the format of the .service files is really
>> simple and most of them will work from systemd-1 to systemd-195.
>
> As long as you know what the dependencies are and how to invoke it (is
> it a deamon, or not?). Yes you can figure all that out and write all
> files but it would take some time. the overlay saved me a lot of time.

I can see now that the overlay is indeed being maintained.

>> No, I do not. Which service files do you need from the package? The
>> only one I needed (and wasn't included in its own package) was for
>> vixie-cron.
>
> And syslog-ng, and others I forgot. These have already been done in the
> overlay.

I used rsyslog, which contains its own service file (like most of the
packages I use). Now I'm using only the journal.

> So after some experience with it, I see that booting is a little
> faster, but not much. But my xfce session startup seems to take longer
> now.

That it's weird. What does "systemd-analyze blame" say after a fresh boot?

> hm... It's also less clear how to manage this thing. The systemadm
> tool segfaults on me.

That is a bug, and probably related to the slow boot.

>  on the plus side the shutdown is much faster.

If you give us more information, perhaps we can try to figure out the issues.

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México