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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Providing a `service` scripts that speaks OpenRC and systemd
  @ 2017-09-29  3:29 99% ` Dale
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From: Dale @ 2017-09-29  3:29 UTC (permalink / raw
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Austin English wrote:
> (Note: serious discussion, please take systemd trolling elsewhere).
>
> While having the pleasure of working with some proprietary software
> recently, I was asked to run `service foo restart`, and was surprised to
> see:
> foobar ~ # service foo restart
>  * service: service `foo' does not exist
>
> Since `systemctl restart foo` works, I had a workaround anyway.
>
> Talking with Whubbs about it, I found that our service script only
> supports OpenRC, via rc-service. I looked around, and from what I can
> tell, most distros ship a service tool for all supported init systems. I.e.,
> Debian/Ubuntu: supports sysvinit and systemd via init-system-helpers
> CentOS/Fedora: provides support for systemd via initscripts
> OpenSUSE: has a working service binary for systemd (according to #suse)
>
> I'd like to propose moving `service` out of OpenRC and into a separate
> package that OpenRC and systemd can both use. It's very possible that we
> could simply package/use another distro's scripts (I haven't evaluated
> that though).
>

I thought this was familiar.  This was discussed not long ago and as far
as I can tell, nothing came of it. 

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/9bd54475fc23b9c265984c5a91129710 


Hope that link works, if not, this is the subject of the discussion. 

"[openrc] [systemd] make `service` common for both OpenRC and SystemD
(like Debian/Ubuntu/whatever did)"

It has a few replies.

Dale

:-)  :-)  *
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