Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

[Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com>]

Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> writes:

>
> No, in the contrary. When I first saw Gentoo's system in the mid 2000s,
> which was based exclusively on dependencies (but still used scripts on
> top of sysvinit), I thought: wow, this is SO much better than all the
> other distros at that time.
>
> To me, anything that doesn't allow me to have dependencies is not worth
> my consideration. I've often had to write own services that hook into
> the system startup at certain points. And being able to specify
> dependencies is something absolutely essential here. Because then I
> actually semantically describe why I want a service in a given position
> in the boot sequence. Doing it in any other way is madness to me.
>
> There's a reason why _every_ modern init system supports dependencies
> (systemd, Solaris's SMF, nosh, OpenRC, ...), because in the modern
> world, where so many things need to be taken care of at boot, it's
> absolutely essential to be able to express the relations betwen all
> the services that need to be started explicitly in form of
> dependencies, otherwise you'd never be able to really tackle the
> complexity.
>

To use an analogy: there is a reason why programming languages switched
from line numbers to named subprograms.

Mart

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