init script behaviour

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I'd instinctively prefer (1) from a "do one thing and do it well"
> perspective; (2) starts down the road of a better/more complex form of
> service-monitoring/management and ends up doing it really badly in messy
> sh script in N places.

Absolutely.  The core OS doesn't need to come with a half-assed
reimplementation of Nagios.  "service foo status" should be just "is
the pid running, and that's how things will be with Systemd as I
understand it.