E.g. for quick provisioning of containers or virtual machines, this is also to make sure the required directories always exist. In a normal distribution, /home already exists, so systemd-tmpfiles does nothing, but there are cases where you want to setup a standard directory structure and this is a declarative alternative to scripts with a lot of mkdir, chmod and chown.
The name systemd-tmpfiles is kind of historic at this point, but wasn’t changed due to backwards compatibility and all.
Not being able to Syu every 5 minutes and only being able to update once a day was the biggest challenge when I changed to NixOS
I found it especially funny that his initials are the same as Mike Tyson’s.
The guy is an absolute gaming legend. Just figuring out so much about a single game on your own and then optimizing it to such a degree with all the randomness involved. Truly obsessed
Nice info.
If you want know more about a completely different aspect of Punch-Out!, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBR9ypSOTGQ
So in the non US game version, Soda Popinski is named Vodka Dunkenski.
I thought this was an issue with revisions, I still he was also called Vodka in the early US version.
I mean even Mike Tyson got renamed to Mr Dream later…
Isn’t he called “Don Flamenco”? Haha
Interesting how similar our distro careers are. My switch was also after a long time (15 years). Wouldn’t go back to Arch. Still think it’s a good distro for what it’s trying to achieve.
Hey, I never said this is what people want, just that it is in fact a transferrable skill. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone just trying to get their machine running, but if you’re looking to gain some insight, is not the worst choice.
If you actually try to understand what’s happening, I think it’s one of the best ways to learn how a system is composed, at least if you install manually. What’s a partition, file system, what does mounting do, chroots, you name it.
I don’t use Arch anymore but still think it’s a great distro to learn the basics while still having the luxury of new binary packages. Manual Arch install abstracts basically nothing away from you, for better or for worse.
Currently on NixOS, I’d say while its engineering is better overall, the things you learn there are much more distribution-specific or maybe concept-specific and often not applicable to other distributions.
I guess there are also probably ways to install e.g. Debian manually, I’ve never seen instructions for it though as there was always the focus on the installer, and frankly I’m not a big fan of apt and all. It always seemed to be much more convoluted than pacman plus it does a lot of stuff for you, whether you want it or not was my impression.
Also basically every Linux big name posted there. It was so great. I’m still sad it’s gone
This is a fork or other form of replacement for nix as in the package manager. It does not replace NixOS, but can be used on NixOS and Darwin.
They aren’t really designed to stop people from breaking in but rather to stop intrusive people that you talk to first before deciding to not let them in. With the chain, you can open the door a bit without allowing the person outside to force himself in without too much force, e.g. by blocking the door with your foot as the door can only be opened fully after closing it.
Advanced versions exist where if you put strain on the chain (mostly trying to push the door open from the outside) an alarm goes off.
Why would you install that door chain thing like that, it makes no sense
systemd has its own containers, so this is the implementation of that requirement; “virtual machines” might use this exact binary to create home, among other directories like srv and what not. Someone at one point probably said “we always need to create these when spinning up systems, maybe systems can provide a mechanism to do that for us?” and then it was implemented.
systemd-tmpfiles claims the following:
I rather think having a purge command was the issue here, at the very least it should print a big fat warning at what it does, better even list all affected files and directories. There’s no reason a normal user needs this and with the name of the binary, it’s totally misleading, which is an issue in these situations.