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Even "nohup" programs?

Apparently, according to the third message in the report.

That's treading on hallowed grounds man. How can you teach newbies to use nohup now?

"Oh, first you have to talk to the machine's administrator to reconfigure systemd, if you're on Linux. Or just use FreeBSD, MacOS, Solaris, or ... Cygwin".

> or ... Cygwin

Or not, because windows will kill all processes that are part of the users session when they log out.

> Or not, because windows will kill all processes that are part of the users session when they log out.

Ah-HA! Now we know what inspired this change.

Is Poettering financed by Microsoft, or is he just a fan of their ease-of-use, high security and all-round wonderfulness?

Yes, but you can use 'systemd-run' to do something similar[1]

[1]-https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/NEWS#L29

As a regular user, I don't want to know anything about systemd. I want the system to behave like Unix.

The nohup utility is standardized by POSIX: Look here:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/no...

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