On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 03:11:53PM -0700, Viktor Bogdanov wrote:
> Could you please clarify why Debian AWS AMIs use "init" as process 1 while
> "regular" Debian uses "systemd"?
You might be thrown by the cmdline for pid 1 - the binary is named
/sbin/init, but it comes from systemd. For instance, on my laptop:
$ ps x -q 1
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? Ss 0:36 /sbin/init splash
$ dpkg -S /sbin/init
systemd-sysv: /sbin/init
Ross