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Upstart is pretty similarly easy to use in my limited experience with it. Definitely a nice idea to have stdout just automatically go to a log file.

• justizin 11y ago
  Basically DJB did this in the 90s with daemontools, which many of us now use a revamped fork of called 'runit'. You still write shell scripts, but you also still have control. Again, I'm not entirely opposed to the ideas behind systemd, but I am opposed to basically every fucking Linux server distribution breaking because of things people are doing for the desktop, which began with upstart. There is also no love left to lose between me and sysV init scripts.
  • nailer 11y ago
    I love djb's stuff - he has his own concepts of everything, though, including the FHS, which makes his stuff hard to run on regular Linux distros. If there was a djb Linux I'd definitely install it.
    • vezzy-fnord 11y ago
      systemd has its own FHS requirements, as well: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarc... The only difference is acceptance.
      • mercurial 11y ago
        But Nixos, which doesn't follow the FHS, still uses systemd...
        • vezzy-fnord 11y ago
          Sure, much in the same way you can use daemontools without strictly following its FHS requirements. Or more likely you'd be using one of its many derivatives, as vanilla daemontools is rather old by now.