Re: sysvinit->systemd transition details
On Fri 22 Aug 2014 at 17:20:03 -0700, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:
> I have a Jessie-based system, which up to the last upgrade used
> sysvinit of course, and where I had added sysv-rc-conf, and was
> happily juggling with a few runlevels.
>
> But after an upgrade (still in Jessie), systemd rules. No problem
> about this, but what degree of compatibility should I expect ?
> Specifically, is there some automated mechanism that would:
>
> - extract initdefault from inittab and do a "systemctl set-default
> runlevelX.target"
>
> - scan /etc/rcX.d and do the appropriate "systemctl enable" for all S
> scripts
Systemd doesn't use /etc/inittab.
> If the answer is "no", why is sysv-rc-conf still tolerated under
> systemd ?
For backwards compatibilty? The sysvinit concept of runlevels is
obsolete under systemd.
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