[ale] One for systemd haters

[Jim Kinney]

security through extra knowledge obscurity....
On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 12:19 -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> Not that anyone cares, but found it on Ubuntu 16.04 ... but not in a
> directorythat would be modified outside the package management.
> /lib/systemd/system$ ll --  -.slice-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 403 Jul 30
> 16:39 -.slice
> 
> If their intent was to make it hard to modify for noobs, they've
> succeeded.
> 
> 
> On 10/09/2018 11:10 AM, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
> Jim followed up saying he saw it on CentOS7.  I saw the same "-slice" 
> file on 2 of my RHEL7 systems before I posted.  CentOS7 is compiled
> from RHEL7 sources.   
> Since he didn't see it in Fedora and you don't see it in *Suse15 it
> may be something that was there in earlier implementations of Systemd
> that they figured out was a bad idea and got rid of in later
> ones.   RHEL7 (and therefore CentOS7) by design doesn't update to
> latest and greatest of anything.  Fedora on the other hand is
> bleeding edge.
> 
> -----Original Message-----From: Ale [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
> Behalf Of James Taylor via AleSent: Tuesday, October 09, 2018 11:05
> AMTo: Atlanta LinuxEnthusiasts; Jim KinneySubject: Re: [ale] One for
> systemd haters
> Same here. I checked on my openSUSE Leap 15 and SLES15 systems. No
> files starting with - IS there some special case where it is used?-jt
>  
> James Taylor678-697-9420james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
> 
> 
> Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> 10/9/2018 10:50 AM >>>????? That is
> not what I see in my /usr/lib/systemd/system dir.There'sexactly 0
> files whose name begins with a '-'. That would be beyond dumb. I
> suspect a faulty distro implementation.Checked on Fedora 28 and
> CentOS 7.5. No -name files.
> 
> On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 14:38 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
> I just ran across this issue.   (Not asking for help since the
> linksolved it – just venting.)
> 
> 
> 
> 
https://serverfault.com/questions/844584/why-grep-doesnt-work-in-the-usr-lib-systemd-system-directory
> 
> 
> What mentally deficient cretin in the Systemd development world
> decided naming a file with a “-“ as first character was a good idea?
> 
> 
> 
> This is right up there with Oracle long ago deciding to name
> things“core” while ignoring the fact most people had cron jobs to
> findand
> delete core dump files on a regular basis. P.S.  I still generally
> like Systemd but this filename is a fairlystupid thing to
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