On Jul 18, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayle...@alice.it> wrote:
> In principle this should simplify the algorithms involved. > But it seems to me that the way in which it has been implemented > has in fact increased the complication rather than the reverse. >From my perspective this is a simplified implementation, service files have >very simple and well documented behavior, any complication I see seems to be >inherent to the problem space and existed before systemd came on the scene, so >it’s not created by systemd. A simple service example would be >rsyslogd.service which just reads /etc/sysconfig/rsyslogd and runs >/sbin/rsyslogd -n $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS a more complicated example would be >mounting NFS filesystems, which has a bunch of dependancies on RPC port mapper >services like idmap or gssapi a special filesystem in /var/lib/nfs etc. Neil >Brown wrote a series of articles for LWN on replacing the shell scripts in >nfs-utils with systemd unit files for SuSE. https://lwn.net/Articles/584175/ So simple things are trivial, more complicated things are possible and the options are there in the config file if you want to use them but you aren’t forced to. — Mark Tinberg, System Administrator Division of Information Technology - Network Services University of Wisconsin - Madison mtinb...@wisc.edu _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
