[Cialug] The systemd Init System

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

So, basically, with systemd you have to learn more. Instead of learning 
one pattern that works for all services ("service X configtest"), one 
has to learn each particular service's idiomatic way of doing the same.

On 2015-12-09 at 15:39:28 Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> /usr/sbin/named-checkconf -z /etc/named.conf
> 
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:31 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > I often use "service named configtest" to check for bugs in the zone
> > files before restarting, what's the equivalent in the systemd
> > world?
> /usr/sbin/named-checkconf -z /etc/named.conf
> 
> There's nothing magically systemd about it, it's what was being run
> behind the scenes when you ran "service named configtest".
> 
> From the searching I've done... that doesn't exist. Most of the
> comments
> > are somewhat hostile, asking why you'd want to do something as silly
> > as check config files.
> 
> You're looking in the wrong places then.  Many services with complex
> config files have some way to do basic syntax checks:
> 
> nginx -t
> apachectl configtest
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