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I like SysV-style init systems. I also don't mind RPM .spec files. They've always let me get the job done.
by khedoros 10y ago
I like SysV-style init systems. I also don't mind RPM .spec files. They've always let me get the job done.
- snuxoll 10y agoI hated SysV init, because writing init scripts is a chore - especially since you have little to no choice but to implement the detach/fork strategy to get a daemon to work properly without resorting to things like supervisord, etc. As much flak as systemd gets for trying to do too many tasks, I really find it a much better solution to `init`. With that said, I agree about rpmspec's. They're simple to read and easy to maintain, it's part of the reason I chose CentOS and Fedora as our standard at work instead of Debian or Ubuntu.
- khedoros 10y agoI certainly can't disagree about the SysV boilerplate, but I also haven't written more than 5 or 6 of those init scripts in the last decade, so it's never seemed bad enough to me to ditch it for something completely different. In my current day-to-day, between work machines and my personal machines at home, I've only got to deal with init stuff occasionally, so picking up the Systemd way of doing things will take me a while.