systemd vice SysV/LSB init systems - what next ?

Kostas Georgiou k.georgiou at atreides.org.uk
Wed Jul 20 13:49:40 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:57:13AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:

> If it's not sufficient for administrators to copy a unit file from 
> /lib/systemd/system to a new name undir /etc/systemd/system and do the 
> necessary changes to run another instance of it and reload the systemd 
> daemon then we have templates which allows creation of multiple units 
> from a single configuration file.

This way the copied unit file never gets updated if the original one is
updated, with the old sysv scripts you could do an ln -s foo newfoo
and get the updates.

Kostas



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