On 24/12/13 21:06, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 08:48:45PM +1100, Allan Duncan wrote:
I _like_ to use vi and grep to find traces of whatever I was trying to extract from messages.
newsflash: you are wrong.
it doesn't matter what you think you like, or what you think your needs might be - you are just plain wrong. systemd's author knows better than you.
welcome to the new Lennartix mono-culture. your distro will be assimilated.
craig
Ah, trust Craig to stir the possum. But I agree in part, I get a system into a form that suits my way of doing things, and then the underlying distro changes some fundamentals and breaks it. Gnome being a case in point. So eventually I end up with XFCE and the sawfish wm to get back to where I was. I don't mind systemd and I am slowly finding my way about it - it is a pain to change but I can see there may be ultimately a cleaner control structure, although sometimes the error message can be unhelpful - when I upgraded to F20 an automount of a remote volume started failing with the message that it "failed". I eventually worked out that the network connection was now slower in coming up to the extent that the mount came before the network was there. I ended up putting it in rc.local after a "sleep 5". The Old Way still lives.