systemd vice SysV/LSB init systems - what next ?

Stijn Hoop stijn at sandcat.nl
Tue Jul 19 19:31:19 UTC 2011


On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:06:03 +0200
Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:

> Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 18:30 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" a
> écrit :
> 
> > Hum best is to provide you with example which daemon do you
> > maintain I can convert it for you and provide it to you as an
> > example anyway here's an example of a systemd unit that I converted
> > sometime ago for a know application named tomcat6 and I'll leave
> > readers to be the judge of that what is harder to understand the
> > native systemd unit or the legacy sysv init script...
> > 
> > First the converted unit file
> 
> > Now the legacy sysv init script that everybody seem to love and
> > cheerish so much...
> 
> I don't think anyone loves this particular sysv script but you
> realize I hope that 99% of its complexity is here to make
> multi-instanciation trivial (because when every user can run an IDE
> like eclipse that wants its own tomcat instance to play with you *do*
> need multi-instanciation) and your unit file does not support this
> use case at all?
> 

I think the question is: why should this particular usecase be covered
by the SYSTEM init script?

In other words, why should the package tomcat6 not provide a
better /usr/bin/tomcat6 "binary" (or shell script, or whatever) that
can work out on its own whether to multi-instantiate?

--Stijn


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