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On 30 September 2017 08:19:36 BST, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>W dniu sob, 30.09.2017 o godzinie 00∶20 -0400, użytkownik Walter Dnes |
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>napisał: |
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>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 04:27:31PM -0500, Austin English wrote |
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>> > (Note: serious discussion, please take systemd trolling elsewhere). |
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>> > |
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>> > While having the pleasure of working with some proprietary software |
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>> > recently, I was asked to run `service foo restart`, and was |
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>surprised to |
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>> > see: |
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>> > foobar ~ # service foo restart |
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>> > * service: service `foo' does not exist |
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>> Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers |
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>> everyone's use cases. https://xkcd.com/927/ |
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>> But if you insist, why not just set up a short bash script called |
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>> "service" rather than monkeying with every init system's internals? |
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>> |
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>> #!/bin/bash |
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>> if [[ <condition_running_systemd> ]] ; then |
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>> systemctl ${2} ${1} |
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>> elif [[ <condition_running_initrc> ]] ; then |
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>> /etc/init.d/${1} ${2} |
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>> elif [[ <condition_running_some_other_init> ]] ; then |
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>> <do whatever that init system requires> |
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>> else |
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>> echo "ERROR: Unsupported init system; 'service' call failed" |
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>> fi |
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>> This can handle a large number of different inits, with as many |
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>"elif" |
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>> lines as you care to add. But, how do we reliably detect the |
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>currently |
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>> running init system? Are there running processes, or entries in |
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>/sys/ |
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>> or /proc/ or /dev that are unique to to each init system? |
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>You forgot the huge mapping between different service names. Then |
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>complex mapping from services that are split/merged. Next we need a |
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>tool |
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>that will update conf.d for OpenRC services which are split in systemd, |
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>to allow people controlling them independently. |
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Names aren't consistent between Debian and Red Hat either so that isn't really an issue. |
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