[Fedora-packaging] Revised systemd Guidelines
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Dec 3 19:00:37 UTC 2010
Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at gmail.com) said:
> 1) A system admin unfamiliar with systemd installs apache and sees that
> there's an /etc/init.d/httpd file. He runs /etc/init.d/httpd start to
> startup the service unaware that when systemd reboots the service it will be
> using the unit file and not the sysvinit script.
/etc/init.d/<foo> start redirects to systemctl; systemd will then start
whichever of the units is 'active' - in this case, it would be the systemd
service both before and after reboot.
> 2) A system admin unfamiliar with systemd sees that there's an
> /etc/init.d/httpd file. He customizes the file for his environment but then
> is confused why his customizations aren't being used when the system reboots
> (and systemd starts httpd using the unit file).
This is a more likely source of confusion.
Just attempting to clarify current behavior,
Bill
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