On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 10:25 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > the big thing with any of these new service managers (I'm more familiar > with Solaris SMF than systemd, but I believe it does the same thing), is > that it determines whether the service properly starts and tracks > service dependencies. sysVinit style services could only be sequenced > (start all lower numbered services before starting this one) and it had > to wait for each service to start before going onto the next, while SMF > and presumably systemd will start multiple services in parallel as long > as they aren't dependent. also, SMF at least detects when a service > fails/stops, and attempts to take corrective action per how that service > is configured Thank you for the enlightening information. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. Centos, Exim, Apache, Libre Office. Linux is the future. Micro$oft is the past.