Subj : More findings..
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Fri Jan 20 2017 18:34:13

Hello Nicholas!

20 Jan 17 08:31, you wrote to me:

 NB> For the time being, you may want to comment out any and all Arch Linux
 NB> and Manjaro related stuff in installinit.sh until proper systemd
 NB> scripts are created for them.

Noted.

 NB> After reporting to you that the search for Manjaro also needed to be
 NB> done in installinit.sh, I realized there are no init scripts to be
 NB> installed, and since both Manjaro and Arch Linux are systemd based now
 NB> (as well as others, I'm sure), the current state of both in MBSE are
 NB> not going to install proper startup scripts.

 NB> installinit.sh includes:

 NB> cp init.Arch $DISTINIT

 NB> but there is no init.Arch in the script directory, so this will not
 NB> work. Just as well, I'm not even sure Arch Linux supports sysvinit any
 NB> more unless you go out of your way to make it do so.

 NB> So at the moment, you could probably just comment out (or remove) the
 NB> complete "# Adding scripts for Arch Linux" section in installinit.sh,
 NB> and everything should still work as expected. Both Arch Linux and
 NB> Manjaro will still be labeled and installed properly, just without any
 NB> kind of startup script or service file installed at the moment.

I need to setup a machine with Arch Linux so I can figure out what is needed 
in the systemd way of doing things.

 NB> I began working on a little something, but need more time. Until then,
 NB> the above should be okay - and on both Arch Linux and Manjaro mbtask
 NB> will need to be run manually by the MBSE admin user. When I get
 NB> something working as far as systemd goes, I'll let you know.

Keep in touch here or via netmail.

Andrew

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