Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger@xxxxxxxxx) said: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:00:37PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > > 1) A system admin unfamiliar with systemd installs apache and sees that > > > there's an /etc/init.d/httpd file. He runs /etc/init.d/httpd start to > > > startup the service unaware that when systemd reboots the service it will be > > > using the unit file and not the sysvinit script. > > > > /etc/init.d/<foo> start redirects to systemctl; systemd will then start > > whichever of the units is 'active' - in this case, it would be the systemd > > service both before and after reboot. > > How does this work? Transparently; if an init.d script is called with 'start', 'stop', 'reload', 'restart', or 'condrestart' (or any synonyms thereof), it's silently redirected to systemctl if systemd is in use. See the top of /etc/init.d/functions for details. > Does this mean that init scripts have to be rewritten > to do something like this? No, no initscript changes are required. Bill -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
