this is exactly what drives people up the wall...

Posted Nov 25, 2011 11:25 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: this is exactly what drives people up the wall... by khim
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

Systemd throws all that away: you can not just "add tiny nodge here and small delay there".

Guess what systemd service definition files do allow you to specify individual shell commands that will be invoked at various points of a service's life cycle. Those system administrators who today need to tweak convoluted, distribution-specific SysV init files will likely find it a lot easier to deal with this interface.

Also, SysV init gives you no real way to override a distribution-provided init script with one that you modified, such that your version will take precedence over the one in the distribution and your configuration will not be overwritten once the next version of the distribution package comes around. Systemd does. (And this is after this issue has had 25 years to be straightened out in SysV init. Give systemd 25 years to mature and see what it looks like then.)

All of these things should be painfully obvious to anyone who actually takes the trouble to read the systemd documentation and descriptive blog posts. But of course it is much easier and more convenient to misrepresent the package (and the intentions of its authors) out of a position of ignorance.