Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch?

Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote:

> systemd.unit (5)
> systemd.service (5)
> On Jul 28, 2013 6:26 AM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> > walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 07/26/2013 06:39 AM, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
> > > > must I check that every entry previously in /etc/init.d now has an
> > entry
> > > > in /usr/lib/systemd/system?  What do I do if there is no corresponding
> > > > entry?
> > >
> > > I actually had to write a few of my own *.service files, which belong in
> > > /etc/systemd/system/ instead of /usr/lib64/systemd/system. (systemd looks
> > > in both places for service files)
> > >
> > > I started playing with systemd on a virtual gentoo machine many months
> > > ago when gentoo's systemd was still very incomplete and lacked *.system
> > > files for several important packages.  I'm hoping the gentoo devs have
> > > made progress with that problem, but fedora and arch linux have already
> > > made the switch to systemd and you can steal *.service files from those
> > > if you need to.
> > >
> > > BTW, I'm still using systemd only on my virtual machines so far.  The
> > > recent upgrade on ~amd64 is an ugly mess IMHO.
> >
> > Any documentation on what is in a service file?  It does not look too
> > bad, but I would rather see the full documentation on what you can have
> > in there and exactly how they work.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> >
> >          John Covici
> >          covici@××××××××××.com
> >
> >
Heavens, never thought of actual man pages for those!  Must be getting
long in tooth.


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