From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 846A71381F3 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:25:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85227E096B; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:25:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0200.smtp25.com (mail0200.smtp25.com [174.37.170.200]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6F134E07FD for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (s-out-001.smtp25.com [67.228.91.90]) by s-out-001.smtp25.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r6RMOx9D014831 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:24:59 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r6RMOwvt003598 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:24:59 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch? In-reply-to: <51F3FB82.3040006@gmail.com> References: <1374476626.10089.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> <51ED8E92.3020309@hadt.biz> <15636.1374548316@ccs.covici.com> <3622.1374571918@ccs.covici.com> <51EE4FC9.6070407@gmail.com> <87haflgrw5.fsf@nyu.edu> <87k3kdzbhl.fsf@nyu.edu> <51F3FB82.3040006@gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to walt message dated "Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:55:30 -0700." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:24:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3597.1374963898@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: s-out-001.smtp25.com-r6RMOx9D014831 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 46cc4b1e-fc07-4a60-acb9-a702268a057d X-Archives-Hash: c506862c228d63669176fd2f50b30dbf walt wrote: > On 07/26/2013 06:39 AM, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote: > > must I check that every entry previously in /etc/init.d now has an entry > > in /usr/lib/systemd/system? What do I do if there is no corresponding > > entry? > > I actually had to write a few of my own *.service files, which belong in > /etc/systemd/system/ instead of /usr/lib64/systemd/system. (systemd looks > in both places for service files) > > I started playing with systemd on a virtual gentoo machine many months > ago when gentoo's systemd was still very incomplete and lacked *.system > files for several important packages. I'm hoping the gentoo devs have > made progress with that problem, but fedora and arch linux have already > made the switch to systemd and you can steal *.service files from those > if you need to. > > BTW, I'm still using systemd only on my virtual machines so far. The > recent upgrade on ~amd64 is an ugly mess IMHO. Any documentation on what is in a service file? It does not look too bad, but I would rather see the full documentation on what you can have in there and exactly how they work. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com