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From: Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch?
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:30:08
Message-Id: CAG2nJkMmSgC3trMLxmG8vT0kO7VomsctK_v0ruNXpZoa2CHy4Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch? by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 systemd.unit (5)
2 systemd.service (5)
3 On Jul 28, 2013 6:26 AM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
4
5 > walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >
7 > > On 07/26/2013 06:39 AM, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
8 > > > must I check that every entry previously in /etc/init.d now has an
9 > entry
10 > > > in /usr/lib/systemd/system? What do I do if there is no corresponding
11 > > > entry?
12 > >
13 > > I actually had to write a few of my own *.service files, which belong in
14 > > /etc/systemd/system/ instead of /usr/lib64/systemd/system. (systemd looks
15 > > in both places for service files)
16 > >
17 > > I started playing with systemd on a virtual gentoo machine many months
18 > > ago when gentoo's systemd was still very incomplete and lacked *.system
19 > > files for several important packages. I'm hoping the gentoo devs have
20 > > made progress with that problem, but fedora and arch linux have already
21 > > made the switch to systemd and you can steal *.service files from those
22 > > if you need to.
23 > >
24 > > BTW, I'm still using systemd only on my virtual machines so far. The
25 > > recent upgrade on ~amd64 is an ugly mess IMHO.
26 >
27 > Any documentation on what is in a service file? It does not look too
28 > bad, but I would rather see the full documentation on what you can have
29 > in there and exactly how they work.
30 >
31 >
32 > --
33 > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
34 > How do
35 > you spend it?
36 >
37 > John Covici
38 > covici@××××××××××.com
39 >
40 >

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