Re: The Tragedy Of systemd

On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 02:15:34 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

I just wish they had some simple articles that I could find that makes
it easier for me to find where thy put the things I need to edit to make
my SMALL and SIMPLE system to work in MY environment.

The official reference for systemd is <https://systemd.io/>.

Where is the per-network-device data that used to be in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts now? I know I am supposed to use
network-manager, but how does it play with ifconfig and "ip addr" and
"ip route"?

Network Manager is quite independent of the iproute2 system, and neither
of them is tied to systemd (at least, systemd knows and cares nothing
about Network Manager, not sure if the feeling is mutual).

For example, I only allow Network Manager to run on my laptop, not on my
main workstation machines. I find it a pain to have on machines with fixed
IP addresses. But all of them run systemd.

... even though I am sure there is a systemd service
definition I am supposed to make a simple edit to.

systemd even supports the idea of being able to make customizations to a
service file without having to edit the whole thing: you just override the
entries you’re interested in, in a separate “drop-in” config file (should
be called “mixin”, but hey...).