> It shouldn't be this hard to stop a service gracefully. It's not. > you just need to drop a script into /etc/init.d symlink it from the appropriate rc direc

> It shouldn't be this hard to stop a service gracefully. It's not. > you just need to drop a script into /etc/init.d symlink it from the appropriate rc directories. You just need to drop a unit file into /etc/systemd/system/ and symlink it from the appropriate /etc/systemd/system/${target}.wants/ directories. Don't tell me that "shutdown.target.wants" and "reboot.target.wants" are harder than "rc0.d" and "rc6.d". A lot of the article is about ordering of dependencies (don't stop a dependency until after the dependent has stopped). Don't tell me that adding `Before=` and `After=` lines in the unit file is harder than having to remember all of the dependencies and manually figure out the correct "NN" for it all to work correctly. A lot of the article is about either having your daemon handle SIGTERM, or coming up with the appropriate `ExecStop=` command. The same command you'd be writing in your rc script (the "handle SIGTERM" stuff being for if your rc script simply says `kill $PID`). That is: The complex parts of the article are things that were complex with sysvinit too.