Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches

Re:Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole... by 6c696e7578 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @11:07AM (#24020993)

Not at all like systemd then. I had hoped by now we'd be using something that took the arguably good qualities (simple unit files) and none of the complexity (why does it implement DNS?) and we could have the better subset.

It will continue to bite until enough people petition it's replacement.

Don't get me wrong, some of the features are good, but the kitchen sink is not.

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Re:Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole... by otterley on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:47PM (#24021889)

systemd does not implement DNS. There's a helper program that can resolve DNS queries (systemd-resolved), but it is optional.

systemd is largely architected the way you'd hope it to be. systemd itself, the core program, is responsible only for maintaining the lifecycle of other programs. The other functionality is provided by satellite daemons, which you can choose to use (or not use!) at will.

Now, distro maintainers may choose to use the whole kit-and-caboodle, but that is a deliberate decision on their part. It's not forced by the systemd authors, and you are free to override your distro maintainer's choice if you so desire.

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Re:Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole... by kasabali on Saturday August 01, 2020 @07:38PM (#24024900)

> systemd does not implement DNS. There's a helper program that can resolve DNS queries (systemd-resolved), but it is optional.

So it implements DNS.

...and I must add, implements it badly [0]

> Now, distro maintainers may choose to use the whole kit-and-caboodle, but that is a deliberate decision on their part. It's not forced by the systemd authors

Not forced, instead they "gently push" [1]

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595335

1. https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2010-Se...

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