Israel G. Lugo wrote:
On 10/23/2014 12:05 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
systemd is a tool designed to get the system to a state where "real work" can be done. NTP servers, DHCP clients, consoles, aren't the real work of a system, or at least I hope not, because that would be boring to me.
Depends on the system.
Legitimate question, not trying to be sarcastic: would you concede that the amount to which something is a "detail" may vary significantly per the use case, and requirements? On my desktop I might not care about whatever the DHCP client is doing, or the NTP server, but on a server that may very well be a different story.
Re. NTP: Timekeeping is rather essential in lots of applications - like, for example, transit operations, where I currently spend my work life. An accurate, accessible central clock tends to be a rather important system component. And we're talking concerns in the range of seconds. When you start getting into serious real-time systems (laboratory instrumentation, utility operations, warfighting, ....) - yeah, NTP servers start getting really interesting, to a lot of people. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra