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Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name)
An anonymous reader writes: System administrator Andrew Ayer has discovered a potentially critical bug in systemd which can bring a vulnerable Linux server to its knees with one command. "After running this command, PID 1 is hung in the pause system call. You can no longer start and stop daemons. inetd-style services no longer accept connections. You cannot cleanly reboot the system." According to the bug report, Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS are among the distros susceptible to various levels of resource exhaustion. The bug, which has existed for more than two years, does not require root access to exploit.
It's about systemd so of course it will be overblown by its detractors.
slashdot: A failed experiment.
It's not only mature, it's also unmaintained. There is no white hackers looking at the code so there might be crawling with bugs that we do not know of. And with SysV there is also the problem with the init scripts themselves, recently there where a vulnerability with the MySQL wrapper script. The incentive to switch would be among other things, much simpler unit files, far better logging, no difference between distributions, possibility to automatically restart crashed deamons, cgroup control for the daemons and so on.
Yes.
Since office politics at RedHat decided this was the way to go and because they are putting in a lot of resources then that's the way it's going.
Also the way Lennart lobbied the gnome people to made things depend on systemd was very political. If you want the current gnome you need systemd or an extremely complicated workaround to make it multi-platform again.
my primary desktop...which is never permanently online to begin with.
So either you have a dial-up internet, or you're somehow turning off a switch or network card when you don't "need" internet. How does that work? You download your emails, store webpages offline for later reading? What about porn? You browse specialized sites, sample a few videos, then download them for later use?
I can almost imagine you, coming back to your computer, in your bathrobe, carrying a bottle of cold cream and a glass of chardonnay. I can imagine you sifting through those offline porn videos, craving for something kinkier than the blonde on blonde stuff you earlier thought would hit the spot - your blue chip porn. Of course at the time you couldn't foresee that there would be a new woman at work, a black one with a big booty, the kind that never before you would have imagined as jerk off material; or that at the Taco Bell drive-thru there would be a young Indian with a bitchy attitude that would leave you with a faint taste for some femdom kink or maybe a bit of hardcore tag-team action. So there you are, with your 200mb worth of mp4 filled with silicon tits and pouty lips; a far cry from what you'd really be into, all thanks to your offline desktop policy.
This sounds like an awful way to enjoy life. Whatever you've done, or whatever has been done to you, stop punishing yourself. Connect that desktop to the grid; hell, go nuts and upgrade your internet connection to something decent like a 60mbps plan, and start having fun. Allow yourself the spur-of-the-moment youtube experience; skim through your inbox in a web browser; join the Bittorrent brotherhood; let pornhub suggest things to you and go down that rabbit hole of semi-related videos. The grid has lots to offer.
lucm, indeed.