Which init system for Debian?

Posted Feb 8, 2014 22:27 UTC (Sat) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Which init system for Debian? by hummassa
Parent article: Which init system for Debian?

Huh? If systemd can do everything the others can, then in theory the other config files can be translated to systemd, but not vice versa.

This is nontrivial even for shell scripts and would be a total mess to automate for upstart because systemd does not have (nor need) an event concept the way upstart has.

You can of course annotate a sysVinit or upstart script so that systemd can auto-translate it. But then you can write a systemd unit file from scratch just as easily, so why bother?

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Feb 8, 2014 22:52 UTC (Sat) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Both upstart and systemd can run SysVinit scripts for backward compatibility, so that point is moot.