systemd acceptance, packaging guidelines (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:06:32PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> SERVICE HANDLING
> - Running 'chkconfig <foo> <(null)|on|off>' on a service managed by systemd
>   will return the correct code/perform an appropriate action.
> - Running 'service <foo> <start|stop|...>' on a service managed by systemd
>   will perform the appropriate action (via systemctl), and return 
>   similar errors.
> - Running '/etc/init.d/<foo> <start|stop|...>' will not break the systemd
>   environment, while still performing the action specified, and shall return
>   similar errors.

 - Running 'service <foo> status will' produce a concise
   human-understandable output and the apppropriate return code


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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences