Debugging?

Posted Nov 20, 2010 17:02 UTC (Sat) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: Debugging? by quotemstr
Parent article: systemd v12 released

Most of the reasons I've ever needed to edit a init.d script is because the init.d script sucked, not the thing it was starting. IMO systemd has the potential to eliminate that problem entirely...

Debugging?

Posted Nov 20, 2010 19:51 UTC (Sat) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link] (1 responses)

Erm, so your assertion is that systemd will magically lead to bug-free initialization that doesn't need workarounds? "systemd works fine as long as the initialization configuration is perfect" is a rather weak argument.

Debugging?

Posted Nov 21, 2010 4:12 UTC (Sun) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

No, my point was that most of the problems I've had have been because of all the duplicate crud in init.d shell scripts which have been copied incorrectly while being cargo-culted from program to program. So, my problems won't have a chance to happen, because the description of how to manage a daemon in systemd is so much shorter and harder to screw up.

Obviously it's possible to have other kinds of problems too...If you want to call sleep 1 before starting a daemon there's nothing stopping you from replacing the start command-line with a shell script that calls sleep 1 before starting the daemon. Even in systemd that should work...