John Andersen wrote:
Linda, your system (as described by you) is so different than the stock opensuse that I suspect you're well on your way to writing your own init system.
I'd be surprised if anything worked for you the exact way you want it. Good for you. You're way better at this stuff than I am.
(I'm rather surprised you start with opensuse, only to customize it so much.)
--- For the record. I went with opensuse because it already had the features I currently run. I didn't have to modify my system to get it to run -- I just had to NOT allow various files or packages to be removed or replaced with things that didn't work. Open suse did my disk partitioning -- it was standard to separate things. XFS-only systems were supported too. So was lilo, so was booting from disk. My system processes came from opensuse. It isn't so different from earlier opensuse systems. Opensuse branched away from its roots. Things already worked the way I wanted them to which was why I lobbied for sysd to continue to allow the old methods to work while implementing new, and maybe better methods to replace them. Then I could adopt the ones that showed clear benefit rather than having one big "one-size-fits-all" set that is "take the whole thing, or leave it".
You change some procedures. Not that big of a deal.
Can't help you fix your system in your hypothetical case. Pretty much assumed your question was a rhetorical corner case, but its a corner you live in (and painted yourself into) and I'd be out of my depth playing on your court.
---- Very simple -- how to not have systemd need to run as pid=1. It won't. I didn't create the need or make the changes to be able to launch /bin/bash from the lilo prompt -- they were already there. Don't think I created my system by myself. I just didn't adopt new methods that removed functionality. In some cases, things changed so I wasn't supported, then changed again, later, supporting my setup again. It's only been since sysd adoption that differences have expanded -- mostly due to the encroachment of an expanding sysd. I know the truth isn't nearly as interesting as the myths, but C'est la vi. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org