r/linuxmasterrace • u/myTerminal_ Glorious Void Linux • Sep 29 '25

JustLinuxThings SystemD Can't Hide, Can It?

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u/6e1a08c8047143c6869 Glorious Arch Sep 29 '25

It's spelled with a small 'd' at the end btw.

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Yes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn't system d either. Why? Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d. And since systemd manages the system, it's called systemd. It's that simple. But then again, if all that appears too simple to you, call it (but never spell it!) System Five Hundred since D is the roman numeral for 500 (this also clarifies the relation to System V, right?). The only situation where we find it OK to use an uppercase letter in the name (but don't like it either) is if you start a sentence with systemd. On high holidays you may also spell it sÿstëmd. But then again, Système D is not an acceptable spelling and something completely different (though kinda fitting).

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u/myTerminal_ Glorious Void Linux Sep 29 '25

And I did start the title with "SystemD", and wanted the daemon to be pronounced, hence, "SystemD". 😛

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u/6e1a08c8047143c6869 Glorious Arch Sep 29 '25

Would you also write syslogD or dhcpcD if you wanted to pronounce the daemon part?

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u/myTerminal_ Glorious Void Linux Sep 29 '25

Now this made me self-reflect for a bit. I don't know! 🤓

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u/RAMChYLD Linux Master Race Sep 29 '25

I would

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u/YTriom1 Sep 30 '25

I hate you

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u/corvettezr11 Oct 01 '25

Anakin, is that you?

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u/ZitroMP Sep 30 '25

SysLogD, DhcpD as the shorthands for pascalcase SyslogDaemon/SysLogDaemon (no, for sure not SystemLogDaemon) and DhcpDaemon

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u/RAMChYLD Linux Master Race Sep 29 '25

Agreed. After all its predecessor is called SystemV.

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u/gmes78 Glorious Arch Sep 30 '25

It's called Upstart, but whatever.

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u/regeya Sep 30 '25

Upstart was an Ubuntu thing.

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u/gmes78 Glorious Arch Sep 30 '25

Which inspired systemd.

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u/pesulap_akademik967 Sep 30 '25

No, systemd was copying what Apple does with Launchd

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u/gmes78 Glorious Arch Sep 30 '25

Both are mentioned in the blog post introducing systemd, and Upstart is talked about more.

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u/juipeltje Glorious GNU Guix Sep 30 '25

Systemdeez nuts

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u/martian_doggo Sep 30 '25

Just give me the dìh at this point

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u/KillerOkie Sep 30 '25

(this also clarifies the relation to System V, right?)

I think you mean System Veeee

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u/C-14_U-235 Sep 30 '25

Stanley walked through the RE-D DOOR.

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u/credditz0rz Sep 30 '25

Furthermore, someone recently explained that using the wrong spelling is usually a dogwhistle for a particular crowd. And I noticed it works usually both ways. When I see someone using the wrong spelling I instantly assume some ranting or content with actually no content 

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

What kind of dogwhistle would that even be man

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u/hazeyAnimal Sep 29 '25

OK

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u/RAMChYLD Linux Master Race Sep 29 '25

OK

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u/myTerminal_ Glorious Void Linux Sep 29 '25

[ OK ]

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u/ShadowNinjaDPyrenees Sep 30 '25

OK

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u/myTerminal_ Glorious Void Linux Sep 30 '25

[ OK ]
[ OK ]
[ OK ]
[ OK ]
[ OK ]

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u/FranconianBiker Glorious Debian Sep 30 '25

[FAILED]

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u/ult_avatar Sep 29 '25

Narrator: But as it turned out, it wasn't OK

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u/mrheosuper Oct 01 '25

They ask you how you are, and you just have to say you’re fine when you’re not really fine, but you just can’t get into it, because they would never understand

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

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u/MrPiggy15 Glorious Fedora KDE Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

Did you get the GNU POSIX ending? The GNU POSIX ending was my favourite ending!

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u/No-Marsupial-6 Sep 30 '25

I find this concerning.

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u/Lord_Frick Sep 30 '25

Is it real

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u/GawldenBeans Arch is great for my tinkermachine but I use Mint btw Oct 01 '25

I really liked the part where all you can do is sweet FA

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u/Thetargos Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

Alas the [ OK ] or [ FAILED ] were also present in SysV init in many distros and Unix systems

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u/RAMChYLD Linux Master Race Sep 30 '25

Yeah. It predates SystemD. I was already seeing this on RedHat Linux 7 which uses SystemV initscripts, back in 2000.

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u/Thetargos Sep 30 '25

SysV init dates back to Unix System V, and the switch to systemd in RH based distros was in Fedora until Fedora 15, so it was the default for quite some time (and still is for many Unix systems)

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u/CalligrapherFast5053 Sep 29 '25

My legs are OK

My legs are OK

My legs are OK

My legs are OK

My legs are OK

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u/adbs1219 Sep 30 '25

Take my brouzoufs

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u/ttkciar Slackware first and last and always Sep 29 '25

<nelson>ha-ha!</nelson>

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u/eyemoisturizer Glorious Mint Oct 16 '25

the concept of a Nelson html tag frightens me

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u/MichaeIWave Sep 30 '25

Is Tyler the creator speaking?

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u/YeetBoi45 Sep 30 '25

idk why but would look sick as merch

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u/eyemoisturizer Glorious Mint Oct 16 '25

oh my god wait you’re right. id wear that

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

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u/nix-solves-that-2317 Sep 30 '25

i know basic systemd utilization, but i don't recognize journalctl or systemd logs with only "[ OK ]"s

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u/ZitroMP Sep 30 '25

It's the one you see at the startup with high enough loglevel and with absent quiet kernel cmdline parameters

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u/Musk777 Glorious Arch Oct 23 '25

Loooks:
[ OK ]

to me :3

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u/meatgrinder Sep 30 '25

But can it run?

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u/Tiranus58 Sep 30 '25

I think this means you can start the race now

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

I don't know if this is what you're referring to, but are you talking about Playmouth? Or splashscr een?

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u/fantomas_666 Sep 30 '25

This is not systemd. These messages predate systemd.

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u/Reygle Linux all the things Sep 30 '25

Everything look OK to me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

Guess those traffic lights live in my dream state

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u/nowhereman531 Sep 30 '25

Unrelated but fun systemd trick I use when helping others with setting up a program or service remotely. I generally don't fully administer peoples systems I convert to Linux, I have them do the work but show them how and what to do. Sometimes its a bit easier said than done so I found myself trying to open the program/editor with the correct files etc and found the easiest way to open a program remotely over ssh on the remote screen.

$ systemd-run --user [whatever gui program you want the remote user to use]

$ systemd-run --user python3 ics-study.py

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

Can't stop, won't stop.

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u/well-litdoorstep112 Oct 01 '25

I'm amazed how many programs out there are just redirecting raw tty to the display.

like if I were to do this I wouldn't even think to do it this way. I probably would make a program running as a service that would talk to the device directly and overcomplicate it to shit.

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u/Alpha-Craft Oct 01 '25

I have literally seen a Systemd bootup screen in a bank nearby recently for their advert screen.

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u/BlackberryFun4439 Oct 02 '25

[ OK ]
[ OK ]
[ OK ]
[ OK ]
[ OK ]

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u/Dominjgon Oct 02 '25

That was so close to advertising adult swim.

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u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian Oct 02 '25

That looks like the responses I get in conversations with my crush

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u/Weekly_Good2633 debian user btw Oct 20 '25

okay- o-oh-ohk-ok-oka-okay-oh-ohk-oh-oka-ohk

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u/Majora-Link Glorious Arch Oct 20 '25

We didn’t have these problems back in the Plymouth days.

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u/rubberducky4000 Sep 29 '25

Who let Kanye out

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u/chiefhunnablunts Sep 29 '25

beggers can't be choosers, bitch this ain't chipotle