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Re: Anyone know what this nginx error is about?

From "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Anyone know what this nginx error is about?
Date 2018-11-04 22:03 +0100
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On 11/4/18 5:17 PM, Dan Espen wrote:
> "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> writes:
> 
>> On 11/4/18 1:46 PM, Dan Espen wrote:
>>> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>>> On 11/3/18 7:34 PM, James Moe wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/2/18 12:50 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The reason to avoid systemd is that it's a big security vulnerability
>>>>>>> risk and it eats up GNU applications.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Wild accusations without a hint of proof.
>>>>>
>>>>> The larger code base, the higher risk for vulnerabilities and systemd
>>>>> has been having security vulnerabilities quite often compared with the
>>>>> other init systems
>>>>>
>>>>> https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/systemd-vulnerability-leads-to-denial-of-service-on-linux/
>>>>> https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-systemd-vulnerability-dns
>>>>> https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15686
>>>>> https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15687
>>>>> https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15688
>>>>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/05/linux_systemd_grants_root_to_invalid_user_accounts/
>>>>>
>>>>> That just a handful during the last two years, which most people should
>>>>> be able to find with a simple search engine query.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I found a neat resource today.
>>>>
>>>> "systemd"
>>>>
>>>> https://scan.coverity.com/projects/350
>>>>
>>>>    484,654 lines of code.
>>>
>>> I saw this a while back, so I went to git and downloaded
>>> systemd.  It was tiny.
>>>
>>> These counts look bogus to me, I think they are including
>>> all the services that have been adjusted to work better with systemd.
>>>
>> $ git clone https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git
>> $ tot=0; for l in `find systemd/src/ -type f -exec wc -l {} \; | sed
>> 's/\([0-9]*\) .*/\1/'`; do tot=$(($l + $tot)); done; echo $tot
>> 485877
>>
>> So systemd has grown and there is a bunch of other files that belongs to
>> the project which hasn't been counted at all.
> 
> That's way more than just systemd.
> A quick look shows fsck, hostname, journal, libudev, all kinds of stuff
> that have nothing to do with starting  services.

Those are parts which systemd has eaten up of other projects and are now
used directly by systemd.

-- 

 //Aho

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Anyone know what this nginx error is about? Nomen Nescio <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-11-01 08:48 -0500
  Re: Anyone know what this nginx error is about? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2018-11-01 09:13 -0500
  Re: Anyone know what this nginx error is about? Nomen Nescio <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-11-01 20:21 -0500
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      Re: Anyone know what this nginx error is about? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-11-08 09:49 +0100
    Re: Anyone know what this nginx error is about? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-11-02 08:50 +0100
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          Re: Anyone know what this nginx error is about? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2018-11-04 06:17 -0500
            Re: Anyone know what this nginx error is about? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-11-04 13:05 +0100
            [again] software complexity Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2018-11-04 12:35 +0000
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              [again] software complexity Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2018-11-04 13:05 +0000
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      Re: Anyone know what this nginx error is about? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-02 09:21 -0400
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