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Re: systemd-fsck?



Am Samstag, 10. Mai 2014, 19:13:01 schrieb Matthias Urlichs:
> Hi,
> 
> Martin Steigerwald:
> > Yet: I do think its about high time systemd developers and packagers adopt
> > an attitude of "never break userspace" like the kernel developers do.
> I beg to differ. At least in this case.
> 
> "su" does a bunch of things that are perfectly appropriate for something
> that creates a "new" login. That's its job.
> 
> Running a daemon under its own UID is an almost-completely different
> problem. We already have a tool which does this (start-stop-daemon),
> which has been recommended for this task for umpteen years, and which still
> works if there is no .service file – for whatever reason.

On my other mail I wrote it a bit differently with an added statement along the 
lines "and if you do care for fixing it at whatever place is most suitable and 
do so before systemd becomes default".

I am not opposed to having this fixed in dirmngr init script.

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