Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]

Fri Oct 24 04:41:39 UTC 2014

All those init.d scripts do about 95% the same thing, all hacked
together in shell. Most of them are probably just slightly edited
versions of some few paleo-scripts.

Set the location of the pid file, set the path of the executable, set
the command line flags/options, maybe change some flags/options based
on some options in another file like /etc/sysconfig/daemon_name (also
shell commands which are just executed inline), then the
start/stop/reload/restart/status case statements. And the dependencies
of course.

It really could just be config files like xinetd or logrotate except
for a few hard cases where you could have a "run this script"
attribute.

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