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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch?
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:25:06
Message-Id: 3597.1374963898@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch? by walt
1 walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On 07/26/2013 06:39 AM, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
4 > > must I check that every entry previously in /etc/init.d now has an entry
5 > > in /usr/lib/systemd/system? What do I do if there is no corresponding
6 > > entry?
7 >
8 > I actually had to write a few of my own *.service files, which belong in
9 > /etc/systemd/system/ instead of /usr/lib64/systemd/system. (systemd looks
10 > in both places for service files)
11 >
12 > I started playing with systemd on a virtual gentoo machine many months
13 > ago when gentoo's systemd was still very incomplete and lacked *.system
14 > files for several important packages. I'm hoping the gentoo devs have
15 > made progress with that problem, but fedora and arch linux have already
16 > made the switch to systemd and you can steal *.service files from those
17 > if you need to.
18 >
19 > BTW, I'm still using systemd only on my virtual machines so far. The
20 > recent upgrade on ~amd64 is an ugly mess IMHO.
21
22 Any documentation on what is in a service file? It does not look too
23 bad, but I would rather see the full documentation on what you can have
24 in there and exactly how they work.
25
26
27 --
28 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
29 How do
30 you spend it?
31
32 John Covici
33 covici@××××××××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch? Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com>