[arch-general] How to make wicd work under systemd?

Kevin Chadwick ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jul 9 09:38:38 EDT 2012


> Since you decided /not/ to google and try writing one on your own,
> here's a two-liner.

You shouldn't need to Google to be sure of that. Thankyou for saving me
more time than it cost you.

> ---
> [Service]
> ExecStart=/usr/bin/xinetd -dontfork
> ---
> 
> > I guess you can fall back to rc anyway?  
> 
> The initscripts-systemd package will add support for both rc.local and
> individual rc.d scripts.

Cool so the statement from the design document.

"So, let's get rid of shell scripts in the boot process!"

Is more like reduce than get rid. In fact aside from the copying and
symlinking it may be quicker than the current arch system to add a
custom service. Though it may take longer to be sure of that
initially :-).

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