Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted May 4, 2011 19:43 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Poettering: Why systemd? by aniou
Parent article: Poettering: Why systemd?

It appears you missed out.

https://lwn.net/Articles/441431/

I have explicitly highlighted two items already. systemd services can call shell scripts just fine if one needs it. Anyone who has bothered to try it out in a system instead of just reading blog posts can figure this out.

ExecStart=/bin/myfavshellscript

Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted May 4, 2011 21:04 UTC (Wed) by aniou (guest, #74708) [Link] (3 responses)

But... it's "wrong way"?
See: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-...

Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted May 4, 2011 21:06 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

It isn't the recommended way since systemd cannot babysit the process anymore but if you want to do it anyway, systemd allows that. If you want to ignore the recommendation, nothing is stopping you.

Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted May 4, 2011 21:22 UTC (Wed) by aniou (guest, #74708) [Link] (1 responses)

So... I have choice between inflexibility (someone may be stunned by this, but yes, sometimes admins needs non-standard behavior) or missing functionality and lack of support in problematic situation ("you doing it in wrong way, pal! sorry!")?

It isn't nice.

Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted May 4, 2011 21:35 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

What inflexibility? If you use shell scripts, you don't get some of the extra benefits of systemd but you are no worse off than when you are using sysvinit. The support and functionality is equivalent in that case