CentOS - Oct 2018 - What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros?

Japheth Cleaver wrote:
> On 10/19/2018 5:09 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 01:07:46PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
<snip>
> The /sbin/service command is just a shell script. I'd suggest a patch
to
> send stderr/out to logger as well if I thought it would be accepted. (And
> *manually executing* an init script with direct call was something
> we were already supposed to be deprecating; the service command was the
> standard environmental interface.)
>
> Frankly, I've had a lot more problems debugging mysterious
systemd-based
> startup failures than I ever had in a properly-written Red Hat init
> script. (Again, vendor-agnostic init scripts can be hot messes, but
> that's them...)
Yeah. I have trouble finding the actual startup configs -
/etc/systemd/system? /var/lib? whereeverthehell they are, do a locate....
as opposed to /etc/init.d to find the damn name (nfs? nfsd? idmapd?
nfs-idmapd? rpc-idmapd?)

         mark

On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, mark wrote:
> Yeah. I have trouble finding the actual startup configs - 
> /etc/systemd/system? /var/lib? whereeverthehell they are, do a 
> locate.... as opposed to /etc/init.d to find the damn name (nfs? 
> nfsd? idmapd? nfs-idmapd? rpc-idmapd?)
systemctl status <<service>>

E.g.,

[~]$ systemctl status ntpd
? ntpd.service - Network Time Service
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled; vendor
preset: disabled)

It shows the definition file.

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> Am 20.10.2018 um 00:11 schrieb Paul Heinlein <heinlein at
madboa.com>:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, mark wrote:
> 
>> Yeah. I have trouble finding the actual startup configs -
/etc/systemd/system? /var/lib? whereeverthehell they are, do a locate.... as
opposed to /etc/init.d to find the damn name (nfs? nfsd? idmapd? nfs-idmapd?
rpc-idmapd?)
> 
> systemctl status <<service>>
> 
> E.g.,
> 
> [~]$ systemctl status ntpd
> ? ntpd.service - Network Time Service
>   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled; vendor
preset: disabled)
> 
> It shows the definition file.
> 
Unit File Load Path

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#Unit%20File%20Load%20Path

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