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I use much functionality in systemd that was not present in SysV init, and I really appreciate it. It has never crashed any OS that I have run. However, there
by chasil 3y ago
I use much functionality in systemd that was not present in SysV init, and I really appreciate it. It has never crashed any OS that I have run.
However, there are a few aspects of it that are inconvenient.
Automount units use an unintuitive naming scheme, and you are not free to name them as you wish (as you might for a socket unit). If you are mounting an NFS volume immediately below the root directory, you don't see the problem, but if the mount is several directories deep and/or uses ASCII symbols (non-alphanumeric), it is not pretty.
Socket units require two files per port. When I am moving complex inetd.conf setups to Linux, it's far easier to implement them with busybox inetd than convert dozens/hundreds of services to unit files, despite the increased functionality. Somebody has probably written some scripting to do this.
I am not aware of any include directive for my own directories, so I don't have to place everything in /etc/systemd/system. There probably is a way to do this, and I am betraying my ignorance.
And my, things can get messy in a hurry in /etc/systemd/system.
I don't know how to configure users to be able to maintain their own (personal) units.
And lastly, it's so seductive that I have no idea how to do many things in other operating systems that I easily do in Linux. I wish this itself was not a walled garden (but I'm not leaving).
- assbuttbuttass 3y ago> I don't know how to configure users to be able to maintain their own (personal) units. This is something I use all the time! Just put unit files in ~/.config/systemd/user and use systemctl --user to start/enable them https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd/User https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd/User
- isignal 3y agoJust a note that this requires the admin to enable linger if the units need to be started before the user logs in and run after they logout.
- frankjr 3y ago> I am not aware of any include directive for my own directories, so I don't have to place everything in /etc/systemd/system. There probably is a way to do this, and I am betraying my ignorance. Systemd by default looks at a bunch of directories depending on the context. $ systemd-analyze unit-paths (or --user / --global) https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.unit.html#Unit%20File%20Load%20Path https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...