[Cialug] The systemd Init System

[David Champion]

It looks to me like systemd has a lot better back-end, but the front end is
not nearly as user-friendly, hasn't been designed from a human interface
standpoint at all.

-dc

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> 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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