crazy_hombre

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Comment · 4 years ago

I'm with you. HN pedants are so god damn annoying.

Comment · 4 years ago

An ethernet interface is not a netdev. Netdevs are always virtual interfaces.

Comment · 4 years ago

Oh no, an application has bugs. Must get rid of it!

Comment · 4 years ago

I genuinely don't see what's so complex about a service unit file. It's a simple INI file that has multiple sections that describes the service, tells what command to run and specifies any dependencies. It's literally the same thing that init scripts do except in a much more concise and efficient manner. And as I said before, there's a ton of systemd service unit files on any Linux system that you can take a look at and use as inspiration for your own services. Taking a little time to learn the ways of systemd is not a huge burdensome task like you're making it seem to be. I don't see why you think everyone should conflate systemd with complexity.

And about the voluminous documentation, well man pages are supposed to be comprehensive and cover every single aspect of the tools being described. They're not there to just be an intro to systemd for new users and administrators. If you want something like that, look no further than the "systemd for Administrators" series of articles written by the systemd author himself. https://github.com/shibumi/systemd-for-administrators/blob/m....

Comment · 4 years ago

If you need extra customization capabilities, just run a shell script via the ExecStart= parameter and boom, you have all the power of systemd and the shell combined.

Comment · 4 years ago

Now you're just exaggerating. Are you really saying spending 5-10 mins skimming through a couple of man pages is that hard? Are you saying that a lot of documentation is a bad thing? (I thought FreeBSD fans liked to harp about their handbook..) And besides, there are already hundreds of systemd unit files on your system that you can easily copy and make relevant changes for your own services. Not having to deal with finicky shell features is a major advantage IMO.

Comment · 4 years ago

ifconfig/netstat was deprecated more than a decade ago, that's more than a couple years don't you think?

Comment · 4 years ago

systemd unit files are text files, not binary blobs. And it is much easier to grok a unit file than a 500 line init script.

Comment · 4 years ago

There's no such thing as systemd-firewalld.

Comment · 5 years ago

I've been using Firefox on Wayland for the past year or so. There are still some minor hitches here and there, but it's very usable right now.

Comment · 5 years ago

FreeBSD 13 is moving the i386 architecture to tier 2 status, so looks like the days of 32-bit support in FreeBSD might be numbered as well: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-Ja...

Comment · 6 years ago

That is a super mediocre website you got there. Not a great first impression.

Comment · 6 years ago

That's weird. I just get a 301 redirect to the HTTPS version when I visit http://duckduckgo.com.

Comment · 6 years ago

Isn't YAML supposed to be a superset of JSON? So technically, you should be able to use JSON files right now (barring a few exceptions).