Re: AWS AMIs and systemd

[Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 03:58:16PM -0700, Viktor Bogdanov wrote:
>    We use stretch AMI ID "ami-0e24a11c7e7dd6435" account ID "379101102735".

That AMI does use systemd, as you can see from the transcript below.
Please note, however, the stretch is ancient and is no longer supported
with security updates, bug fixes, etc.  I recommend migrating to Debian
11 here: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-l5gv52ndg5q6i

admin@ip-172-31-35-170:~$ ec2metadata --ami-id
ami-0e24a11c7e7dd6435
admin@ip-172-31-35-170:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
9.13
admin@ip-172-31-35-170:~$ systemctl is-system-running
running
admin@ip-172-31-35-170:~$ systemctl --version
systemd 232
+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN
admin@ip-172-31-35-170:~$ dpkg -l | grep systemd
ii  libpam-systemd:amd64          232-25+deb9u12                    amd64        system and service manager - PAM module
ii  libsystemd0:amd64             232-25+deb9u12                    amd64        systemd utility library
ii  systemd                       232-25+deb9u12                    amd64        system and service manager
ii  systemd-sysv                  232-25+deb9u12                    amd64        system and service manager - SysV links