Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted May 5, 2011 8:50 UTC (Thu) by aniou (guest, #74708)
In reply to: Poettering: Why systemd? by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Poettering: Why systemd?

You said, that systemd doesn't eliminate scripts. In developer's opinion scripts aren't the valid or best way do deal with, but OK - so... could You tell me, WHAT good things systemd brings to me on my servers? I still have scripts (but, at this time I have them on my responsibility) and I have... primitive process respawning? System-wide locale handling? Whoa! Colorized logs? Oh, really, I always want log colorizer in my init!

Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted May 5, 2011 9:57 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

I am not going to repeat myself but a few obvious things include automatic restarting of services, cgroup integration, chroot with systemd-nspawn and many more, There is a entire series of blog posts that talks about various features including server side ones. Links on the top of

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-new-configuration-fi...

If you are so against it anyway, feel free to use another init system.

Poettering: Why systemd? (and kill off other implementations, period!)

Posted Feb 11, 2014 1:02 UTC (Tue) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

And I was foolish enough to blame monit authors for including smtp client within it.

> If you are so against it anyway, feel free to use another init system.
You clearly underestimated Department of Redhat, our smart one.