On Friday 06 May 2016 14:55:33 Valeri Galtsev wrote:
Exactly. As I said in the first post (reply to which happened to hijack the thread - my apologies that was not intended by me), it was only intended to help those who are just about to make this step to really think about what it will entail. And thanks everybody who added their comments, they all do the same what I intended.
Valeri
Unfortunately, the problem was that I didn't (know I) have a decision to make regarding systemd or SysV.
My decision was do I keep my system up to date (which it wasn't) or not. I am sure that I am no different to 90% of sysadmins who don't read all release notes before every 'yum update' run.
I do have to concede that the update did update a great deal of RPM's and probably some by a number of versions. This no doubt is the reason I now have a reasonable sized number of changes I need to deal with (including keep_environment in EXIM, and journals moving on Dovecot )