SystemD on Debian

[William Muriithi]

> This is definitely an area that warrants a talk, with something of a
round-table, so we can share experiences, as systemd is a daemon launcher
that's clearly gotten the critical mass that it'll be used on most Linux
distributions forthcoming.
>

No doubt, look like there is no avoiding it.  Petty much all the big
distributions are on it and it is just a matter of time and will be history.

Now, what happen to BSD? Are they likely to follow along too? I remember a
lot of people didn't want anything to do with it - came up when discussing
udev if i remember correctly - and even Windows developers make fun of it,
but it has overcome all that resistance.

> The place that I'm a bit worried (and ignorance spawns worry, here) is
that I'm normally pretty comfortable with /etc/init.d in that the directory
structure there gives me, in "Unix Philosophy" manner, reasonable 'hooks'
for debugging and figuring out what's going on at Init time.  In contrast,
I don't know how SystemD is structured, and some of what I see gives me a
bit of non-warm-fuzzy in that I'm hearing what sounds rather like captive
user interfaces.

It actually have a binary log, what gives, granted it allow the rsyslog
too, but weren't we all making fun of windows binary configuration for
decades to take the same route now?

>
> On the "hope cool stuff is possible" side, it would be rather neat if
SystemD can be used in user space to help manage user-owned daemons; I
commonly have a few of those.
>
When I read this mail first, the first thing I thought was to look for a
book on the subject at Amazon.  None exist, a great opportunity for any
entrepreneur here. If one is well ahead and have mastered it, I think it
could make money.

Without a book, a tlug round table discussion would be great so I add my
vote to the idea.

William
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