The systemd madness

[Ben Duncan]

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On 03/18/2015 11:06 AM, Jay Nugent wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>
>>
>> Are we losing the ability and control to write our own init scripts?
>> Are we being forced to work with other people... just like selinux?
>
>    A'yup!   The snot-nosed, pimply-faced kids have lost sight of the UNIX
> philosophy of "Do just one thing really really really really well". Systemd has
> turned into a giant monolithic piece of binary code that YOU have NO control
> over, and sadly, changes CONSTANTLY.  There seems to be no end to systemd's
> takeover of init (which was the goal - for faster booting by parralellizing
> processes), but also logging, time keeping, and more. It is almost like a virus
> in the way it is taking over our free control of our own systems.
>
>
>> I remember how simple SysV init scripts are...
>
>
>     When I was teaching UNIX/Linux System Administration at a local Community
> College, I stressed the UNIX Philosophy and would quite easily teach them the
> SysV startup process.  The stoodies absorded this process effortlessly.  But
> then when I would introduce them to the New-and-Improved systemd, their eyes
> rolled back, their heads would spin, and vomit would spew out of their mouths
> (picture a certain syfi movie of the 70's). They absolutely *HATED* it !!!
>
>     It is madness, plain and simple.  If the goal was to launch more processes
> at the same time to make boot-up faster, then give more processes the same S##
> number.  WTF?!?!  It is EASY to tell the order of boot up using SysV - not so in
> systemd.  It is EASY to tell what processes will be [K]illed and which will be
> [S]tarted in any run level.  It is EASY to know what runlevel you will be in at
> boot time (/etc/inittab) and just as easy to telinit to a new runlevel as needed
> during maintenance.  It used to be EASY to spawn an stty at boot time, now it is
> a major cluster-F to do it under systemd, and it only support two modes (single
> & multi).
>
>     Systemd is making me seriously think of bailing on Linux and going back to
> BSD :(
>
>
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