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It is for sysadmins. And those are probably Canonical's biggest source of income.

• d0 13y ago
  Not really. We're mainly concerned that the interface is consistent. service ssh restart works fine but that was fine in sysvinit as well..
  • octo_t 13y ago
    for some value of fine. service my_service restart required writing 100+ shell scripts, each of which was error prone and difficult.
    • d0 13y ago
      But also 100% not my problem :)
      • pjscott 13y ago
        If one of those scripts forgets to kill a process's children (because the process itself was supposed to handle that), and a server ends up with a bazillion orphaned processes, then it could well become your problem! This happened to me once. Never again, damn it.
        • jude- 13y ago
          What stopped you from spawning the daemon in a cgroup?
          • pjscott 13y ago
            I didn't know about them at the time, and I wasn't the one who wrote the script that spawned it.