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Re: reboot stuff doesn't start



	Hi.

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 06:42:34AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 May 2019 12:22:41 am Reco wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 04:52:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 28 May 2019 01:32:31 pm Reco wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 01:23:45PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > > End users can remove that '-e' flag if they believe it's
> > > > > > problematic. rc.local is a simple shell script, open to all
> > > > > > kinds of abuse including this one.
> 
> > > How about a daemon that never exits, but does report its pid on the
> > > next line when launched with a trailing &
> >
> > They call such programs a curious perversion in IT usually.
> > Luckily it does not matter for the start-stop-daemon (it can derive
> > pid more straightforward way) nor it does matter to systemd (there are
> > cgroups for that).
> 
> cgroups? whazzat?  I've not noted its having docs to explain its 
> potential advantages.

Unless you're planning to write your own init system - do not bother.
In the case you really need it - it's all in 'cgroup-v1' in the standard
kernel documentation, i.e.

/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-4.9/Documentation/cgroup-v1


> How would I go about disabling n-m with systemctl?

"apt-get purge network-manager" allows me not to bother myself with such
knowledge. Why disable it if you can remove it? It's Debian, not RHEL.

Reco


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