From: lars@beagle-ears.com

On 2025-12-27, c186282  wrote:
>    There's a GRUB customizer app. With it you can very
>    easily set the systemd option as the default. Have
>    systemd on a couple of boxes, not so on a couple of
>    boxes. I do like the systemd 'auto watchdog' options
>    and being able to wait for certain functional blocks
>    like 'networking' to come up before starting yer app
>    can be useful sometimes.
>
>    Some people LOVE systemd, some HATE it. I'm kind of
>    agnostic at this point. If I decidedly do not need
>    it then why waste the space/CPU ?

In the tangle of references, I got lost. In what distribution can you
switch between initd and systemd at GRUB time?

And is the watchdog feature of systemd a selectable option?
Per service? How do you turn it on?

My Fedora system is quite stable, but sometimes library updates
are a bit out of sync, causing (for example, most recently) the
DHCP daemon to fail on a "systemctl daemon-reload" at the end.
It gets fixed when I type "systemctl restart dhcpd", but it
would be nice if it could do that by itself, rather than waiting
for me to figure out that the reason half my SONOS speakers
have gone offline is because DHCP is confused. (My WiFi AP
seems to take over when the server's DHCPD fails, leading
possibly to IP address conflicts.) It only happens a couple
of times a year, so it is a minor nuisance, but how will my wife figure
it out when I am dead?

Maybe this particular problem is best addressed by reducing
the frequency of (cronjob scheduled) "dnf update -y" from
nightly to just Saturday mornings ...

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Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California

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