Hi mark,

On 2015-01-29 09:53:55, you wrote to me:

 ml> yeah, but there's a lot of other crap in there that's not needed,
 ml> wanted or desired...

Yesterday afternoon I was at a SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 TechExchange event.
They spend about an hour explaining and demo-ing systemd features. I must say
there are some nice things in it! ;)

 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
 ml>> thought memory
 ml>> banks ;)

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

 ml> no, not really... in this case, we're using the init.d script and not the
 ml> links in one of the rc*.d directories...

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

Bye, Wilfred.

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