[plug] Back again,Fedora 16 help please

Ian Kent raven at themaw.net
Mon Nov 28 01:18:17 WST 2011


On 26/11/2011, at 11:49 AM, Chris Griffin <griffinster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Ian,
> 
> I have seem mention of this systemd, how do we use/control it, anyone know?

See systemctl --help, I think, or the man page.
Then looking at the location of and files in the systemd package (rpm -ql systemd) might make sense.

Also have look at some of the unit files in, umm, /lib/systemd/system, I think.


> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net> wrote:
> 
> On 25/11/2011, at 10:33 PM, Chris Griffin <griffinster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings good folk,
> 
> Hi, probably can't help but thought I'd share the pain.
> 
> >
> > I have just installed Fedora 16, I was still running Fedora 14. I hate the new Gnome, cannot find all the thing I was using easily and I cannot use the bars at the top and bottom of the screen as I did before, because they do not exist.
> 
> Yeah, tell me about it!
> I have to wonder about the developers, what are they thinking.
> 
> > Switched to KDE, better but i still cannot find some of the old faithfuls. Some questions I am still struggling with if I could please...
> > First, how do I tell it that each time I log in I want it to default to KDE, it keeps going back to Gnome.
> 
> Don't know but there used to be kde equivalent to gdm might be worth looking around.
> You would probably need to remove gdm if you still can't work out how to set the default.
> 
> > OpenVPN seems to be installed and I have the config info I was using before but how do I set it up and get it to start at boot time. Much of the old way of starting services has gone?
> 
> Yes, I saw that too but I can't start mine at startup because I use a token.
> This is no doubt due to the move to systemd but if you had a SysV init script to do it before systemd will still run it if it's enabled. I don't think there is a separate script run at the end of the startup anymore so you would need to write a simple init script.
> 
> Ian
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