[SOLVED] Is there a SIMPLE howto for basic systemd tweaking such as changing targets?

jtwdyp · 06-14-2013, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by unSpawn

No. You're wrong.

The OPs basic question was "how can I?" to which a fellow LQ member replied correctly with how to symlink targets.

Yes TobiSGD's kindhearted reply was exactly the clue I needed for the most pressing problem...

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Your rant was off topic.

As the original poster, I feel I should say in cyberpatrol's defense that his first post was just a strongly opinionated recommendation to use something other than systemd. And his second did contain a clue about the method TobiSGD explained...

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Please don't do that again.
Now keep this thread on topic.
End of discussion*.
*I am this forums moderator so thread carefully.

As to the rest of his posts, I'm inclined to think that having a long pi^H^H {shall we say shouting?} contest with a moderator does not show wisdom...

I'll be trying TobiSGD's suggestion in a few minutes. Could be that it will make my GPM problem go away too. But if not, I'll start a new thread.

Thanks

TobiSGD · 06-14-2013, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by jtwdyp

Could be that it will make my GPM problem go away too.

I just had a look in the ArchWiki (they use also systemd) and adding GPM to the current running target is done with

Code:

systemctl enable gpm.service

If you just want to start it without adding it to the current target try

Code:

systemctl start gpm.service

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._Mouse_Support

jtwdyp · 06-15-2013, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

I just had a look in the ArchWiki (they use also systemd) and adding GPM to the current running target is done with

Code:

systemctl enable gpm.service

If you just want to start it without adding it to the current target try

Code:

systemctl start gpm.service

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._Mouse_Support

Thanks I'll have to try that...

I gather from that arch wiki that perhaps systemctl is the systemd equivalent of rc-update??

TobiSGD · 06-16-2013, 05:46 AM

Yes, systemctl is the main program to control systemd, but I can't say if it is like rc-update (never used that).

jtwdyp · 06-16-2013, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Yes, systemctl is the main program to control systemd, but I can't say if it is like rc-update (never used that).

Well on Sabayon and presumably other {pre systemD} gentoo systems, rc-update adds and removes symlinks to init scripts to/from runlevel specific directories...

Similar in function to what debian based systems use update-rc.d for...

Though as systemD gains popularity with the developers of various distributions, knowing how to use rc-update and/or update-rc.d may become as useful as knowing how to hunt saber toothed tigers...

It's going to take a while I think for me to adapt to systemctl. :sigh: