systemctl versus service

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 04/17/2014 02:49 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 02:44:39PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> CentOS 7 will be based on RHEL 7, which includes systemd and therefore
>>> systemctl.
>> Important to know, but I will have to support Centos 6 for a while,
>> even if Centos 7 were to come out tomorrow.
> Right, so, equally so: there's no systemd in CentOS 6, so you won't see
> systemctl there.
>
>>> I don't think so. 'system' isn't doing anything special -- it is just
>>> calling systemctl. It looks like the service itself is having some problem
>>> starting up, and that's where the problem needs to be fixed...
>> Running
>> systemctl start hipfw.service
>> runs for minutes before it comes back with the failed message, even
>> though hipfw is up and running.
>> So my question is, is there some option I can add that will result
>> in a much shorter startup time, given the current coding for hipfw
>> (and hipd).
> There's not going to be a systemctl option -- but what does your .service
> file look like?

What .service file?  Where do I look for it?  if you mean a file with a 
name of 'hipfw.service', no such animal.  But then the hip coding 
currently does not support systemctl.