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[Matthew Caron <address@concealed>]

On 1/8/25 03:25 PM, Ralph Ballier wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> there is certainly a lot of effort and work involved. Thank you very 
> much for making your elaboration available.

There is only the accretion of decades of being a grumpy sysadmin.

> I will certainly use parts of it, but most of it has already been 
> realized here (more or less).

Hence my quip about being late to the party.

> You probably can't tell me why bulk.pl doesn't start automatically.

Because you were foolish enough to use systemd. ;-)

I start all of `sympa` via the SysV compatibility mode:

- /etc/init.d/sympa is a symlink to /opt/sympa/etc/init.d/sympa
- /opt/sympa/ is a symlink to the current sympa - so, right now, 
/opt/sympa-6.2.74/
- So, it is the init script published by the Sympa people themselves. I 
assume they know what they are doing. ;-)

If I might pontificate:

- systemd is good for what it is good for - that is: "some event 
happened on my system and I want whizbang things to happen".

- systemd is overkill for many things - that is: "the computer has 
booted, start the things".

But, again, I am grumpy, old, and generally unpleasant, so take that 
under consideration.

On another note - ChatGPT is great, but I don't trust the cloud, and 
have become enamored with the Dolphin series of models, run locally via 
Ollama. Between the new $3k+ nVidia AI box they dropped, to the more 
moderate sub $1000 50xx series cards just announced (I'm looking closely 
at a 5070 Ti), running AI locally to help you with things to limit data 
leakage becomes a real, viable possibility.

(And then you can turn the AI off and run CP2077 at 4K on Ultra settings 
with full raytracing...)

Cheers.

--
"Well, expectations lead to disappointment...
 That’s why I try not to have any."
    -- Brisco County, Jr.
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