[ale] Do One Thing Well

[Jim Kinney]

The syntax reversal is/was annoying. The stop, status, start, status process requires too much back cursor movement and is only a few key strokes away from a one line script to automate the process watching depending on length of process name.

On September 11, 2017 9:01:21 AM EDT, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:
>Concur.  My systemd+UEFI media server at home has been flawless for the
>past year.  Dipping my toes into a systemd server at work now.  The
>claims that systemd works poorly are exaggerations at best.
>
>For the one key feature systemd preached at the beginning, fast
>parallelized boot, systemd is smashing success.  The other key feature,
>service isolation using kernel control groups, simply works.
>
>I'm still annoyed by the syntax reversal of systemctl, but it's not the
>end of the world.
>
>On 09/11/2017 08:37 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> All of my systemd gear startup and shutdown quite well. All of the
>tools, applications, and daemons that do work I want work quite well
>with systemd. Apache, bind, nfs, ovirt, kerberos, sssd, and even gnome
>on the workstations all function exactly as required. Systemd does it's
>multifunction job very well. 
>> 
>> On September 11, 2017 7:47:00 AM EDT, Joey Kelly <joey at joeykelly.net>
>wrote:
>>> On Sunday 10 September 2017 05:58:11 Leam Hall wrote:
>>>> There's a difference between an OS tool and an application. Things
>>> like
>>>> awk and init are tools.
>>>
>>> The inverse of that is "do all things poorly", and systemd does that
>>> quite 
>>> well.
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