On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to mark lewis:

 WvV>> I like the init part of systemd, sysv can become quite "messy"
 WvV>> with all those different scripts.

 ml> we prefer the init scripts and the links in the various rc.*
 ml> directories... we can easily turn things on and off... a lot 
 ml> easier than with that systemd mess...

 WvV> It's different, and you have to get used to it, 

no we don't ;) ;) ;)

 WvV> but I don't find it more difficult to turn on or off services. 
 WvV> What's difficult about 'systemctl start|stop ' ?

you've misunderstood... that's after they've been turned on/off... until
they've been turned on, they can't be automatically executed by the system at
specific times...

we have execution scripts in /etc/init.d and we softlink them into the various
/etc/rc*.d directories... each has its own starting ''rank'' putting it in the
proper order needed during sysinit... there's also links to them for shutting
them down at specific times... the sysv stuff knows whether to call the scripts
with "start" or "stop" based on the link name...

)\/(ark