Re: systemd: some more questions
On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 14:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 14:11 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> > Ralf Mardorf writes:
> > > On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 06:59 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > > > I still cringe when I think of the first time I replaced ethernet card
> > > > in a server and udev changed the name
> >
> > I had to patch the udev conf in a VM image template to overcome this :).
> >
> > > During setting up Arch Linux with systemd the device name switched from
> > > eth0 to enp3s0 on my machine.
> >
> > Any reason for this?
> >
> > This could create "a certain amount of work" to people used to
> > automate things by means of shell scripts...
>
> It's not only work to edit scripts, but also a pain to remember such a
> counterintuitive name. IMO eth_ is easy to remember, whereas enp_s_ is
> horrible. When I had to troubleshoot why linux-rt > 3.8 doesn't run on
> my machine I didn't use my Arch install and journalctl, but compiled all
> the kernels for Debian and used the old faithful Debian log files. I
> didn't find the issue, but at least I could handle those old log files,
> while using journalctl makes me think about Seppuku :D.
> However, we need to become used to systemd, SysVinit/initscripts have no
> future, so we shouldn't waste additional time for lamenting ;).
>
> Yes, it's "a certain amount of work", perhaps we will used to it
> after a while. I'm using systemd since a long time now, but I was to
> lazy to care much about it and I like my Debian without systemd, while
> regarding to other "things" I prefer my Arch Linux install.
PS:
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /usr/local/sbin/alice
[snip]
ip link set enp3s0 up
[snip]
I don't use NetworkManger and things like that, but write scripts.
Fortunately editors have options to replace terms.
Perhaps you can write a script to automatically change such terms
without using an editor.
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