Adam Gradzki
Why systemd-nspawn for Development Containers? If you've ever wanted to let an AI code agent or experimental script run wild without worrying about it wreaking havoc on your system, you need isolation. While Docker is the go-to solution for many, systemd-nspawn offers a compelling alternative...
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
I’m a FreeBSD guy that has had a long, serious, and very much monogamous relationship with ZFS. I experimented with Solaris 9 to learn about ZFS, adopted OpenSolaris (2008?) back in the “aughts” for my first ZFS server, transitioned my installations over to OpenIndiana after Oracle bought Sun...
gslin
tl;dr: Use this shell command in my crontab: @reboot sh -c "while ! systemctl status network-online.target > /dev/null; do sleep 1; done; exec /foo/bar.sh" The problem I've encountered is, sometimes /foo/bar.sh would failed at boot. After digging into details, I found it's because the network...
Martin-Éric
Debian 11 (codename Bullseye) was recently released. This was the smoothest upgrade I've experienced in some 20 years as a Debian user. In my haste, I completely forgot to first upgrade dpkg and apt, doing a straight dist-upgrade. Nonetheless, everything worked out of the box. No unresolved...
Alain M. Lafon
When you run Dropbox on your laptop, you're assuming that it'll synchronize your files whenever appropriate - for example when there's a local or remote file change. And generally speaking, this is exactly what Dropbox does - hence minimizing the chance of conflicts within files, and keeping your...
George Notaras
This post describes how to use the Python bindings of systemd in order to follow and parse log entries of a specific service in real time through systemd's journal. This is an alternative way to tail log files which can be very easily customized.
Logan
Several months ago, I wrote a post to describe how to setup an autossh daemon with upstart. Since Ubuntu 15.04 has switched to systemd, I would like to do the same with systemd. I will give a brief introduction to systemd in this post. Systemd Unit File Systemd services are configured by unit...