Subj : Re: Mystic and Linux distros
To   : Zip
From : Shurato
Date : Thu Dec 05 2024 16:42:00


 Zi> Hello ogg!

 Zi> On 04 Dec 2024, ogg said the following...

 Zi> og> to decide what distro to move to.  What distro are you running and
 Zi> what
 Zi> og> version?  Were there any particular reasons for your choice?

 Zi> I'm running Debian Bookworm (12.8). I've been using Debian since the early
 Zi> 2000s and it has been working fine all the time on a number of different
 Zi> machines.

 Zi> The only "workaround" for Mystic that I've had to perform is to patch
 Zi> cryptlib 3.4.5's ccopts.sh slightly to work with gcc 12. (Cryptlib 3.4.6
 Zi> doesn't work with Mystic at all, I believe.) And to create a systemd
 Zi> service/unit file to launch Mystic (MIS).

Which is better, having an @reboot cronjob, or a systemd service? I do the
former and it works fine.  I just run a script that starts mis server and
deletes the semaphore files  before that.

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