systemd: Is it wrong?

Steve Clark sclark at netwolves.com
Sun Jul 10 20:29:32 UTC 2011


On 07/10/2011 05:46 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 23:32 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> On 07/08/2011 10:57 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> Or in other words: configuration via command line arguments or
>>> environment variables sucks.
> I disagree. It doesn't suck. It's the way UNIX and Linux have done this
> for dozens of years, and it's the way countless sysadmins know and love.
> "Sucks" might be true from the point of view of "hey look at this great
> thing I just designed", but it's very much not true from the point of
> view of the sysadmin working on the weekend who's just thinking "gee,
> what the heck is going on, why won't this just work how it has done for
> the past twenty years?". In other words "suck" depends on viewpoint.
>
> Jon.
This is so true - every admin knows the shell - now we have to learn another new bunch of
stuff - and for what benefits?
>


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