On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 06:08:48PM +0000, Martin Read wrote: > On 16/11/14 17:33, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > >Are you aware that this is the approach that systemd and upstart have > >taken, right? > > > >1) Both systemd (PID1) and upstart are drop-in replacement for the good > >old SysVinit as they both support the common "standard" that are LSB > >scripts (A really good share of the existing LSB initscripts in the > >debian archive are just working out of the box). > > Well. They're (mostly) a drop-in replacement for sysvrc and its > supporting tools. They're certainly not a *drop-in* replacement for > *sysvinit*, because they don't support all of sysvinit's interfaces; > specifically, they don't support /etc/inittab. > > Luckily (for some values of lucky), /etc/inittab was such a terrible > interface (it's unpleasantly reminiscent of Angband's monster, item, > etc. databases) that it seems even most people who prefer sysvinit > to systemd or upstart were using a factory-default /etc/inittab.
Writing a generator would be trivial. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Generators/ No one seemed to care enough for writing one however, but reading the file and generating a unit file ( with the automated restart behavior ) is easy to do. -- l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141116192021.ge25...@gmail.com