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Re: [LUG] Stupidty - was Re: Damn it Debian

 

On 10/02/14 07:42, Tom wrote:
>
>> I'm not entirely sure why sysvinit needs to be binned, but init isn't
>> an area of specialty for me and I accept the guides I've read that
>> talk about speed, interaction and new features. Having been bitten
>> many times by zoneminder not starting because it's being started
>> before mysql, leaving a cctv box twiddling its thumbs until I
>> notice,  I can appreciate that something else might be better.
>>
> Not familiar with zoneminder but a program that fails to gracefully
> wait for services to start needs a look at with percussive tools.
> Tom te tom te tom
>

Ironically, one of the few things systemd does handle relatively well is
stepped dependencies during boot via the "required by" argument to it's
system units (which are similar to individual init scripts in practice,
if not in theory)...

Still not a good enough reason to use it though.

Regards

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