[TriLUG] Locked Out Linux box (Denouement)

[Paul Boyle via TriLUG]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:41:59 -0400
Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> Any chance of accessing your software as a source tree (via tarball)?
> If so, perhaps you'd have a wider range of distros on which to install
> it, if, for instance, systemd gets to be too much of a pita.


There is a small possibility of getting the source code. From a smaller
vendor years ago (with an older instrument), I was able to get there
source code. The current vendor is much more corporate, and is less
likely to do share their code. I guess it doesn't hurt to ask. 

I did ask on my vendor's user group listserv about whether anyone had
successfully converted their rpms to debs.  Two replies were, in short,
no, dependency hell.  I can always try for myself.

> 
> While I'm on the subject of systemd, consider that having systemd
> doesn't force you to run all your daemons from systemd. You could
> start a supervisor like runit, s6 or daemontools-encore from systemd,
> and then start some or most of your daemons from your supervisor. The
> supervisors grant you spectacular troubleshooting and control ability
> for your daemons.

I appreciate the suggestion, but I think setting that up would be
getting beyond my skill/comfort level.

Paul

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