Re: A few observations about systemd
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:12:13 -0300, Fernando Lemos
<fernandotcl@gmail.com> wrote:
>I believe the systemd way to handle this would be moving the logic
>that automatically configures the daemon with flags or additional
>instances out of the init script. In the specific case you mention,
>perhaps this functionality should have been built into exim.
Again, a patch against upstream C code for functionality that can
currently be trivially added by wrappers and init scripts.
This is not going tin the right direction.
>A more realistic option would be launching a program (or script) which
>would read a configuration file (containing whatever
>/etc/default/exim4 contains nowadays) and launch the exim instance(s).
So one would have some thing "like an" init script, which would
probably have to stay around and monitor the daemon? That doesn't look
like an easier way to do things.
Greetings
Marc
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