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Worse still, it starts by assuming runlevels still have a meaning. Nearly all modern distro's are now running systemd, which has no notion of runlevels (targets

by gnur 10y ago

Worse still, it starts by assuming runlevels still have a meaning. Nearly all modern distro's are now running systemd, which has no notion of runlevels (targets are kind of the same but also very different!)

rhblake 10y ago
For reference, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Targets https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Targets is a nice little summary of how it's usually done these days.
CrankyBear 10y ago
The newest distros use systemd, but IT departments seldom run the newest distros on servers. For example, AWS's Linux AWI still doesn't have systemd support.
- JdeBP 10y ago
  In several cases, the versions that preceded them ran upstart. Advice that has a blanket assumption of the presence of van Smoorenburg init has been wrong for longer than systemd has been around.