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Am 05.04.2017 um 20:05 schrieb Dan Ritter:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 07:26:03PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 05.04.2017 um 17:04 schrieb Dan Ritter:
>>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:47:33PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 05:06:22AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>>>> Aside from being insulting, this is just plain untrue.  There are well over
>>>>> 100,000 professional Linux sysadmins worldwide.  I'd estimate that at least
>>>>> a third of them administer at least one - and probably  more than one -
>>>>> systems that work better with sysvinit than with systemd.
>>>>
>>>> That estimate sounds plucked out of the air to me.
>>>
>>> It certainly is.
>>>
>>> For example, I run on the order of a thousand servers that are
>>> running Wheezy because we haven't managed a smooth transition to
>>> Jessie yet, and systemd is a large part of that problem.
>>>
>>
>> what problems exactly do you have which are caused by systemd?
> 
> We have our own applications, built over the last 19 years, that
> are managed by sysvinit scripts which are handled by a configuration
> management system that we built and open-sourced before Chef or Puppet
> were born. Nobody wants to rewrite all of this. Initial testing of
> systemd compatibility were negative, and nothing looked so easy to fix
> that someone jumped up and said "I'll do that!"
> 

Any specifics? What problems did you run into with the sysv compat
support in systemd?


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