[lug] Thoughts on upgrading to CentOS 7

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:05:12 -0600
John <John.Blaas at Colorado.EDU> wrote:

> I have to agree with Zan, though I recognize that your mileage may
> vary depending on the type of systems you administer.
> 
> For me one of the biggest wins of going to systemd has been the
> plethora of supporting tools that have been introduced, namely
> systemd-nspawn, the spiritual successor of chroot. 

That can't be argued. I'd love to have the equivalent of
systemd-analyze blame. And it would be nice to move away from the
widely varying network setups of the different distros. After they
covered the old stuff in mu-metal, systemd gave us an incredibly rich
set of dials mounted to that mu-metal.

>  The options
> available to control the behaviors of a service through the service
> files are pretty fantastic as well.

In all fairness, runit and s6 have all the equivalent controls.

> 
> But if you don't have any use for the myriad of great capabilities
> that systemd adds then other init systems will do just fine.

I'd phrase it a little differently. I'd love to have those
capabilities,  but not at the cost of the complexity and reduction in
my work flow creation capabilities.
 
SteveT

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