• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 days ago

    I feel like the glued together collection of scripts was way worse to manage than systemd.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      Is it? It was always super easy to get anything done and with systems it suddenly got factors more complicated. Port assignment was super easy to do, note the past tense. It now requires systemd and instead of a 15 second config file change and service restart I now need to create and delete files, restart multiple services, God knows what in systems.

      Simply put: why? If you make an alternative solution AT LEAST it shouldn’t become way more over complicated to get basic tasks done

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 days ago

        I definitely think so. Init was a mess of bash scripts and concurrency and whatnot was a problem. Making a script to start a service was very dependent on the distro, their specific decisions and whatnot. Systemd services and timers make things very easy and they have great tools to manage those. And now it’s basically the same on every distro.