[ale] Do One Thing Well

[James Sumners]

Ask and ye shall receive -- https://github.com/xyproto/sys

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Joey Kelly <joey at joeykelly.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> >
> > 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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