Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely
On 3/2/2014 20:21, LOwens wrote:
>
> As I understand things, one of the benefits of systemd is a fast boot
> process. As I only boot my computer once per year (or so), this is terribly
> important to me (sarcasm). My computer spends a lot of time doing BOINC.
>
> As I understand things, to speed up the boot process, all the script files
> get replaced with binary stuff. If there is a problem, you're hooped as you
> can't edit some text file to fix things. Along with this goes a more
> complicated PID=1.
>
> The guys at Bell Labs were all smart guys. Text files and simple PID=1 make
> a lot of sense. There are lots of people who like the idea of fast boot
> times. I think most of these people are looking for hibernation, not boot.
sysvinit's script get replaced with unit files [0].
An example from my Arch Linux ARM system:
[root@lasciel system]# cat multi-user.target.wants/ntpd.service
[Unit]
Description=Network Time Service
After=network.target nss-lookup.target
[Service]
Type=forking
PrivateTmp=true
PIDFile=/run/ntpd.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ntpd -g -u ntp:ntp -p /run/ntpd.pid
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Very much a text file.
[0] - http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html
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