No systemd discussion?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 11 19:23:00 UTC 2014


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:52:14PM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Scripts aren't portable compared to a distribution agnostic tool like
> systemd. You don't have different places to go looking for rc*
> directories and files. You don't have to deal with those rc files'
> strange distribution specific sed and awk invocations.

On the other hand systemd isn't portable to non linux systems, while
scripts often are.

> Moreover, it allows for dependency based service start up within a
> cgroup control system - when something crashes you can handle it more
> easily than with detached zombie pid files and the like of normal
> fork/double-forked processes.

Absolutely.

> I'm using it and quite like it. My $0.02.

I am getting there too.

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