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'systemd-analyze' is a useful if random tool that's part of systemd; it's actually got a whole bunch of different useful bits thrown in. The 'blame' , 'plot' and 'critical-chain' subcommands let you debug start up time. 'calendar' and 'timestamp' let you test if your format for a time/date is OK to use in a systemd file; 'verify' lets you check your systemd unit file for errors. There's loads more random bits.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/115966332467269898
The "boo systemd" pitchfork crowd is already yelling again... x)
Sorry mates. Moving on.
Edit, for ref, the roadmap announcement and reasoning from 10 months earlier:
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from my link log —
Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk.
https://jyn.dev/remotely-unlocking-an-encrypted-hard-disk/
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Before systemd:
Read the wiki and make sure to list the services in the right order so that you can successfully start them all, from networking to a graphical interface to log into.
High chace of messing up.
After:
Enable sddm
Enable network manager
The system will figure out order and dependencies and will parallelize as much as possible automatically.
#systemd

Ich habe ein paar Bugs entfernt und kleine Erweiterungen an meinem systemd-Service für `asncounter` vorgenommen.
https://blog.wiedner.berlin/posts/systemd-asncounter-service/

MX Linux 25: Umstieg auf Debian-Trixie-Basis
MX Linux 25 aktualisiert den Unterbau auf Debian Trixie. Beim Download müssen Interessierte entscheiden, ob sie systemd oder sysVinit wollen.
https://www.

Success! Proxmox upgrade is mostly just Debian's process and it went smoothly. A bit of scariness around systemd-boot config changes but it all worked fine. Some notes here.

#systemd

#RedHat Enterprise #Linux 10.1 is out. It among others brings:
* Soft-reboots. This new systemd capability cuts downtime by letting administrators alter system state without fully rebooting.
* Reproducible builds for container tools in image mode.
* Cloud-crossing consistency w…

Musl support finally merged in upstream Systemd!!

Look Ma, no systemd 🤣
With Niri on Slackware, Mangowc on FreeBSD and now dwm 6.6 on VoidLinux my windowmanagers finally get the attention they need 😆
Many thanks to Drew ( @… ) for his great dots and base setup. Watch his adventures on YT, worth your time.

Systemd ate everything because they have developers working on it and addressing issues. And they do it all under a single flag, the project called systemd.
I don't understand the hate.
It's just software, that is pretty useful. It's useful for distros, because it's well supported and works well.
It's useful for developers because it provides quite a lot of useful and stable tools to create logging and services, that are much more flexible and stable than …

Beefy release of my Choria Configuration Management system, includes some things I've wanted for years like deeper resource monitoring.
Also a nice new docs site
Change log and release here https://github.com/choria-io/ccm/releases/tag/v0.0.2

Ich habe heute aus Gründen mal mein WireGuard-Setup überarbeitet. Das letzte Mal, als ich mit WireGuard was gemacht hatte, hatte Fritz-OS noch kein WireGuard unterstützt.
https://blog.wiedner.berlin/posts/fritzbox-wireguard-und-systemd-networkd/

`brew install netlify-cli` also installs `gcc` ... and `systemd` ?
uhhh...
- netlify-cli uses npm package ipx (image optimization)
- ipx uses npm package sharp (fast image processing)
- sharp has prebuilt binaries that use libvips (image processing)
- netlify-cli brew formula removes those and instead uses the brew for vips
- vips requires poppler (pdf renderer)
- poppler requires gpgme, requires gnupg, requires libusb, requires systemd
(avoid this wi…

I had a couple folks hop into our Discord to ask for some help on the ARK Server installation script.
Got them resolved, but one of the comments struck me as interesting. "Do you support modded maps"
I didn't even think of modded maps... but that sounded like a good idea!
So I'd like to announce my Debian/Ubuntu installer for ARK SA now has support for modded maps! (and a bunch of other improvements to the UI)

My systemd-networking/firewalld experimenting in a VM now working nicely on the real machine; all that pretty much just worked - especially after I added a missing 'ConfigureWithoutCarrier=on' I'd made a note to do and then forgotten. The main gotcha was the #debian I'd debootsrapped not having the firmware files for the NIC that my internet connection went through.
I then t…

Ich habe gebloggt über meine ersten Erfahrungen mit dem `asncounter` von @… .
https://blog.wiedner.berlin/posts/systemd-se…

systemd, journalctl, et cetera.
Last but not least―not last and not most:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1oeeed6/comment/nw5w2zz/>
＂I can't do anything like what's below with FreeBSD. "

I made a script for this, but then I thought a webui would be better so I could use it in my phone and stuff
I asked an LLM to generate a python webui to run server-side the script I wrote, and surprisingly it 100% worked first try. I was sure it wouldn’t work at all, but I didn’t touch that code and it works.
I can’t even say I “vibe coded” this bc I didn’t even read the code enough to know its vibes lmao. I’m surprised this even works, and it does work well. What the actual fuck.
Welp, not my favourite way to do things but I wasn’t in the mood to do python and figure out the extra libraries and stuff.
And it works so I’ll just use that. In a hardened systemd service to make sure it doesn’t like accidentally delete my whole system or something.

I don't even hate Windows, how could I have such strong sentiments against systemd?
I find windows terrible abandonware, that's all. It's more of a feeling of pity and frustration, not hate.

'graphviz' is a suite of programs for drawing graphs (In the nodes/edges senses, rather than upwards and to the right sense) - and it uses a file format called 'dot'. Lots of things generate dot output (such as systemd-analyze I mentioned) and it's really easy to generate from scripts and things. 'dotty' is probably the most common program in the suite.
There are some newer formats and programs - but this one is probably the most universal.

systemd-mcpd

Auf dem ersten Server habe ich jetzt erstmal fail2ban installiert. So richtig eingängig ist die Konfiguration nicht. Erstmal, dass `before=` und `after=` genau gegenteilige Bedeutungen haben von dem, was man von systemd gewohnt ist. Ist halt 6 Jahre älter als systemd :-).
Aber dann auch solche Unklarheiten wie, dass ich sowohl im Jail wie auch in der Action den Port angeben … muss? kann?
Ich habe jetzt mit dem Jail `sshd` angefangen. Mein sshd lauscht auf einem Nicht-Standard-Por…

@… the systemd argument is not ideal, this could be a conversation for another year …

BananaFin, my mix of project Banana (immutable KDE/Aurora) and BlueFin, is reaching finalization.Tomorrow some more testing (have brew and flatpak install my own applications upon first boot), but it is all running very smoothly. Aside from this being my hobby as well, you'd just install this and get on with it. And yes, it's a bootc container, from the cloud, secure boot enabled and it runs flatpaks and systemd. And very well, thank you!