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Even for basic service running, complex dependencies are so much more manageable in systemd. I'm glad systemd "won"; it's much more maintainable IMO than shell

• linsomniac 3y ago
  Agreed, I have some friends that don't like systemd, and I respect their opinions greatly, but my experience with systemd has been quite good over the last decade. I really like it much more than the old init.d scripts. With one exception... I tried to set up a inetd-like service where a script was run on TCP connection with the output going out to the socket. It was tricky to get set up, but eventually I got it working... or so I thought. A few days later the system was super sluggish and I found that every connection that had been made to this service was left open and consuming resources. Switched that to an socat running under systemd and it's been fine since. Never could figure out what exactly the deal was.