Re: Probably a necessity
Vic, I agree with you on the point that perhaps it is trying to do too much, this was why originally I was wary of it.
What I do not agree on is on init scripts being simple:
wc -l /etc/init.d/httpd
418 /etc/init.d/httpd
28 Lines are comments that are active part of the script in the sense that they provide descriptive functionality to the init system!
wc -l /usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service
20 /usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service
5 lines on the unit definition are mere comments.
418 non-standarized code vs 20 standard definition lines 99% common across all distros is quite some gains in my opinion.
I for one do not use firewalld, disabled it for traditional plain IPTables.
The rest of the stuff is exactly the same, you are not forced to use anything in Systemd that you do not want to, case in point the journal, while I do not dislike it and find some of the filtering it can do handy I still like to tinker with the usual text files.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
