[PATCH] Fix samba daemon startup with systemd

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Dec 12 09:27:17 UTC 2017


On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:13:22 +1300
Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 09:02 +0000, Rowland Penny via samba-technical
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:53:05 +0100
> > Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 09:50:06 CET Rowland Penny wrote:
> > > > Can somebody explain why Samba is providing systemd service
> > > > scripts ? Samba never supplied sysv init scripts.
> > > 
> > > Why shouldn't we have a central place to have correct systemd
> > > files. There are several distributions out there using systemd.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	Andreas
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, why should we have a central place for correct systemd files, we
> > never did this for sysv, this is for the systemd distributions to
> > do.
> > 
> > Are you going to suggest that Samba should also have Apparmor and
> > Selinux profiles ? Recommended sssd and nslcd conf files ? 
> 
> Rowland,
> 
> Because systemd is the one true init system, naturally we should be
> honoured to include a script for it.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett

You might be honoured, I am horrified, just what makes systemd
different to sysv for Samba (apart from systemd being a rats nest of
bugs, sorry features). I would have thought Samba should concentrate
on Samba code and leave how it is started to the distros.

I also thought that the main Samba user base was on servers, you might
want to read this:

https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2017/12/10/the-importance-of-devuan/

Rowland



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