On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> writes:
From a sysadmin perspective [systemd] makes my life easier by bringing service control up to (and beyond) the standard of Windows, which has been able to supervise processes since, gosh, I only started counting in Windows 2000.
So sort of like djb daemontools or (as you mentioned) upstart? It's not like systemd is the first thing to do this in Linux.
The big problem with DJB daemontools is that they are written by DJB and he doesn't like doing things in the same way as everyone else. Anyone who's going to argue against change to old interfaces and software is going to hate anything from DJB.
The syntax is not as friendly as upstart, but this is a minor detail. [...] and doesn't interfere with muscle memory by still being able to do "service foo restart".
upstart supports "service foo restart".
Upstart was the second choice of the Debian technical committee...
I find a good analogy for the way cgroups improves management is thinking about the ways in which virtualisation also improves management.
cgroups were also available long before systemd :-)
Was there any other init before systemd that used cgroups? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/