Re: [HTCondor-users] OT Re: Solved: Re: centos 7 problem

[Richard Pieri <ratinox@xxxxxxx>]

On 4/4/2015 11:48 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> Well clearly you wouldn't need /etc/tmpfiles.d to restore them if that
> were true. Whoever wrote that has as much clue as the guy who wrote
> "wouldn't HA setups benefit from faster boot" as rationale for the
> system that needs to run network directory query before it can configure
> the network interface.

My take is that tmpfiles.d is a poorly-conceived workaround for
poorly-written programs. /var/run isn't supposed to be persistent. In
principle it should be empty when the kernel starts because there are no
running processes other than kernel threads at that point in the startup
sequence.

> I'll give you one better: they (systemd***heads) now want to boot
> without /etc so that's why storing condor:condor in /etc/passwd|group is
> a no-no and you need "mechanisms for registering system-level UID<->user
> mappings that are guaranteed to be present".

Yes, well, systemd wants to be Windows 98 with a Linux kernel on top.
Okay, I jest. It wants to be svchost.exe with a Linux kernel on top.

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Rich Pieri <ratinox@xxxxxxx>
MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science