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Counter argument: Try implementing support for Alpine, Debian and other distros whilst using a cronjob. It's impossible. All that opinionated /etc/crontab and
by cookiengineer 4y ago
Counter argument: Try implementing support for Alpine, Debian and other distros whilst using a cronjob.
It's impossible. All that opinionated /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.daily shit can go to hell for all I care. Every opinionated distro uses whatever kind of file format that the next best sh guru came up with, which id also prone for exploitation btw.
With systemd there's a failsafe way for maintainers to offer a cross-distro way to integrate their software.
And that's what systemd is about: automation of integration through convention.
- traverseda 4y agoI'm not sure what you mean? Alpine doesn't have systemd at all.
- egberts1 4y agoFailsafe? I'm still experiencing file corruption regularly with journald on various distros. Cannot recall corruption nor unreadability with syslog.
- kaba0 4y agoThen you have some corrupted hardware. Also, syslog wasn’t capable of logging during the initial stages of boot, which is pretty important.