[systemd-devel] I have switched libvirt-sandbox containers to use multi-user.target

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:50:39AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> On 11/20/2012 09:36 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:52:51AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> >> On 11/19/2012 07:41 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 16.11.12 15:06, Daniel J Walsh (dwalsh at redhat.com) wrote:
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> >>>> Isn't there a way to shut off systemV init scripts altogether, it
> >>>> just so happens that we hit one on my machine.  But in the field a
> >>>> customer could have an init script and then setup containers and
> >>>> systemd will attempt to start it. I want a way to say don't run SysV
> >>>> Init scripts altogether.
> >>> 
> >>> Hmm, there is currently no option for that.
> >>> 
> >>> A semi-dirty trick might be to over-bind-mount /etc/rc.d with something
> >>>  empty?
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> >>> Lennart
> >>> 
> >> What run levels would get executed?  I would prefer to mount over the
> >> empty run levels and allow an admin to be able to turn on a SysV init
> >> script.
> > 
> > I'm not convinced we need to support that explicitly. If an admin wants to
> > support execution of some ad-hoc script they can easily make a system unit
> > that uses the various ExecXXX directives to invoke their arbitrary shell
> > scripts.
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
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> 
> I was thinking more that if they wanted to execute
> 
> chkconfig within the container, the right thing would happen, which I get by
> mounting empty dirs over /etc/rc.d/rc.[0-6]d
> 
> Similar to us allowing the admin to execute
> 
> systemctl enable foobar.service
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> within the container.

IMHO supporting legacy commands like chkconfig is a non-goal for
libvirt-sandbox. It is brand new functionality designed around
closely integrating with systemd, and I don't think we should
pollute it with code for legacy / dieing init systems.

Daniel
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