[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Jul 23 16:43:18 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 01:31:47PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> For simplicity's sake we thought it would be smart to ensure that the
> unit names are actually identical to the unit configuration files they
> are configured in on disk. i.e. you'll find the configuration for a unit
> "foobar.service" in the configuration file "foobar.service". And for a
> socket "waldo.socket" in the file "waldo.socket". And so on.

Presumably we'll have smart tab completion which will make that less
painful. I actually like the explicitness of the .service extention, as it
makes a distinction between running a given binary daemon and running a
_specific configuration for_ that daemon.

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


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