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Upstart wasn't bad at all. It actually worked really well. I've never dealt with other init scripts but now that my dev/deploy target is freebsd I don't really

Upstart wasn't bad at all. It actually worked really well. I've never dealt with other init scripts but now that my dev/deploy target is freebsd I don't really see any issues with shell scripts as init scripts either. I don't need any fancy parallelization and socket activation and all that fancy jazz for a backend server.

pas 10y ago
It was unfinished, almost unmaintained, and basically left for dead. It was (and is still) a lot better than shell scripts, but the problem (of system [lifecycle] management, including initialization) is complex and hard to isolate/decouple and evolve in a sane manner.
digi_owl 10y ago
> I don't need any fancy parallelization and socket activation and all that fancy jazz for a backend server. And that is perhaps the red line. Those that have embraced systemd seems to be made up of cloud/container/web people that worry about being able to take something from 1 to 1 million servers in a heartbeat. Those that do not see the need are all those that for years have been running Linux using sysv or alternatives on the backend for various uses.