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to: MARK LEWIS
from: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
date: 2015-01-28 20:55:00
subject: Re: systemd (Was: Startin

Hi,

On 2015-01-28 08:59:17, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "systemd (Was: Starting binkd as a daemon on linux)":

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

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

You mean 'sysctl enable ' ?

After you have done that you can call 'systemctl start|stop ' commands
from any cron job.

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

You're describing regular sysv functionality here, so...?

Bye, Wilfred.


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