systemd vice SysV/LSB init systems - what next ?

[Alexander Kurtakov]

On 22:50:10 Tuesday 19 July 2011 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> On 07/19/2011 06:43 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > 2011/7/19 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"<johannbg at gmail.com>:
> >> 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...
> > 
> > [snip for brevity]
> > 
> > 
> > What did you do about those specialized functions: findFreePorts
> > makeHomeDir and parseOptions?  Did you move those functions elsewhere?
> 
> Nope..
> 
> This unit file is just laying around in bugzilla as so many of them but
> if the maintainers actually need that stuff they would probably throw it
> in /usr/sbin/tomcat6 which is where the actual start magic is happening...

FWIW, tomcat package (note the missing 6) is at version 7.x.y and ships with 
the systemd integration and seems to be working fine.

Alexander Kurtakov

> 
> JBG