Am Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:05:37 -0400 schrieb "Stephen E. Baker" <baker.stephen.e@xxxxxxxxx>: > This DAEMONS array is nice, one of the things I like about Arch, but > it is specific to Arch not SysV. If you run Gentoo, or others you > won't have something like that, you'll have a program that arranges > symlinks, not entirely unlike systemd. Well, yes. I guess you're right, at least somehow. It's long ago that I switched from Gentoo to Arch. Nevertheless I'm not quite sure if systemd does the same as Gentoo does. At least Gentoo does this with shell scripts. But I still had no time to read the links about systemd, Tom posted recently. > Why you would want to specify which services had to come before or > after which other services is obvious when you consider that systemd > boots services in parallel. Principally right again. But I have a problem with booting daemons in parallel, on Gentoo as well as on Arch. Made several problems. But I can't tell anymore which. So I prefer booting in serial, even if it's slower. If I recall correctly this was also one of Arch's advantages over Gentoo that I just could add the daemons to the DAEMONS array in rc.conf and choose the order myself. > Odd, Arch uses SysV's init, but it certainly doesn't have a SysVinit > init system. It's much closer to BSD, and a lot of the tools we use > are custom. I know, and it's not necessarily bad. > Others include OpenRC (used by Gentoo), Upstart (used by Ubuntu) and > of course systemd (used by Fedora) I must admit that I didn't use OpenRC and Upstart, yet. I switch to Arch right before OpenRC was introduced in Gentoo. Heiko
