[Cialug] The systemd Init System

[Scott Yates]

Between things like this and binary logging, I really dislike what I have
seen so far of systemd.


On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
wrote:

> 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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