[ale] Do One Thing Well

[Joey Kelly]

On 09/11/17 09:36, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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.

I was just thinking about that last week. Surely a wrapper could be
written to give back the traditional "service postfix restart" syntax.
If I had to use systemfail more than once every few months I'd write it
myself.

--Joey


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> 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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