systemd: Is it wrong?

[Steve Dickson]

On 07/11/2011 04:42 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:49:56 -0400 Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Ok.. Now understand where my confusion is... Currently when one
>> want to start the nfs server they type 'service nfs start' which
>> calls a number of binaries and ultimately a system daemon.
> 
> We could achieve something similar with systemd by providing a target
> unit 'nfs.target'. The unit would pull the daemons using requirement
> dependencies.
> 
>> Now if they enable want secure nfs, they edit a file in /etc/systconf
>> and simply type 'service nfs restart' which again runs a number 
>> of binaries and start a couple of system daemons.
> 
> This could be another target 'nfs-secure.target'. It would pull
> 'nfs.target' + more daemons.
> 
> The users would start and enable these target units instead of
> the units of the individual daemons.
This definitely sounds promising... When you have some code to 
play around please let me know... I'm more than willing to help
out.. 

steved.