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   Andrew Leary to Nicholas Boel   
   More findings..   
   20 Jan 17 18:34:13   
   
   Hello Nicholas!   
      
   20 Jan 17 08:31, you wrote to me:   
      
    NB> For the time being, you may want to comment out any and all Arch Linux   
    NB> and Manjaro related stuff in installinit.sh until proper systemd   
    NB> scripts are created for them.   
      
   Noted.   
      
    NB> After reporting to you that the search for Manjaro also needed to be   
    NB> done in installinit.sh, I realized there are no init scripts to be   
    NB> installed, and since both Manjaro and Arch Linux are systemd based now   
    NB> (as well as others, I'm sure), the current state of both in MBSE are   
    NB> not going to install proper startup scripts.   
      
    NB> installinit.sh includes:   
      
    NB> cp init.Arch $DISTINIT   
      
    NB> but there is no init.Arch in the script directory, so this will not   
    NB> work. Just as well, I'm not even sure Arch Linux supports sysvinit any   
    NB> more unless you go out of your way to make it do so.   
      
    NB> So at the moment, you could probably just comment out (or remove) the   
    NB> complete "# Adding scripts for Arch Linux" section in installinit.sh,   
    NB> and everything should still work as expected. Both Arch Linux and   
    NB> Manjaro will still be labeled and installed properly, just without any   
    NB> kind of startup script or service file installed at the moment.   
      
   I need to setup a machine with Arch Linux so I can figure out what is needed    
   in the systemd way of doing things.   
      
    NB> I began working on a little something, but need more time. Until then,   
    NB> the above should be okay - and on both Arch Linux and Manjaro mbtask   
    NB> will need to be run manually by the MBSE admin user. When I get   
    NB> something working as far as systemd goes, I'll let you know.   
      
   Keep in touch here or via netmail.   
      
   Andrew   
      
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