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...others, but having professionally managed machines running SystemD for a while now honestly I don't mind it. While the language used (units, targets) is confusing and documentation could be better, there are some things I like about it more than SysVInit. -- Pete Orrall pete at cs1x.com www.peteorrall.com "If there isn't a way, I'll make one."

...HEL has changed the way they handle some things. NICs, for instance, are no longer named after the device number (eth0, eth1, eth2, etc.) but after the *driver* name. Yes, it's a change but it also makes sense. IIRC this is how FreeBSD handles NIC names. -- Pete Orrall pete at cs1x.com www.peteorrall.com "If there isn't a way, I'll make one."

Hi, I get this error message: ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused It does not say connection to what, ?????? And is this a matter of permission??? This is C7 latest and greatest. Any ideas??? Adrian -- Adri P. van Bloois "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure." Edsger W.

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 08:09:01AM -0400, Pete Orrall wrote: > > And *why* random NIC names? Quick, you've got servers from 5 > > manufacturers, of different ages... what's the NIC going to be called? Do > > names like enp5s0 offer any convenience to *anyone* not a hardware > > engineer? > > As someone else had stated, it's not related to SystemD but >

Pete Orrall wrote: >> So, at which stage are you in w/ regards to adopting systemd? Are you >> still >> ridiculing it, violently opposed to it, or have you mellowed to it? > > I've never had to write my own init scripts before so I'm not feeling > the pain of others, but having professionally managed machines running > SystemD for a while now honestly I

According to "Arthur Schopenhauer": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." I must admit that I skipped through the first and second stages - I never found creating init scripts a joy and instead opted to write my own scripts that I launched via inittab. As