Hi,

On 2015-01-28 16:15:45, 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...
 ml>> until they've been turned on, they can't be automatically executed
 ml>> by the system at specific times...

 WvV>> You mean 'sysctl enable ' ?

(Little mistake. That should be: systemctl)

 ml> i guess so unless that's part of systemd... much of what we do is
 ml> handled manually, though... we can easily take an existing script and
 ml> modify it slightly for our item and off we go...

Same goes for the service config files for systemd. ;)

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

 ml> we've never done that and don't intend to do so... /etc/init.d/foo
 ml> start/stop is more our style and it is built into our muscle thought
memory
 ml> banks ;)

That's the same as executing 'systemctl start/stop foo'. ;)


Bye, Wilfred.


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