[PATCH] Fix samba daemon startup with systemd

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Tue Dec 12 10:09:48 UTC 2017


On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:27:17 CET Rowland Penny wrote:
> 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/

So you suggest to remove the whole packaging directory?


	Andreas

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