On 04/09/2017 04:30 AM, J Martin Rushton wrote: > On 09/04/17 05:39, Anthony K wrote: >> According to "Arthur Schopenhauer": >> >> "All truth passes through three stages. >> First, it is ridiculed. >> Second, it is violently opposed. >> Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." > All ideas, true or false, follow those stages, but one hopes that the > false ones are eventually derided and toppled. > > >> I must admit that I skipped through the first and second stages - I >> never found creating init scripts a joy and instead opted to write my >> own scripts that I launched via inittab. As such, I welcomed the >> simplicity systemd's service files without fuss. >> >> So, at which stage are you in w/ regards to adopting systemd? Are you >> still ridiculing it, violently opposed to it, or have you mellowed to it? >> > Accepting it as a fait accompli. It makes life much harder for no > obvious gain, but short of creating one's own distro we seem to be stuck > with it. To answer your question, a combination of proposition 1 and > the first part of proposition 3. > > For those of us with (in my case) over 30 years in the industry, reading > init scripts is trivial and at least we can see what is going on and fix > problems quickly. Some vague, poorly documented, data file which is > interpreted by a black box is the sort of joy one expects from the > murkier regions of Redmond not the sunnier climes of Carolina. > > +1 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves Managed Services, LLC.* Director of Technology Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 490 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20170410/fec2d797/attachment-0005.sig>