On Friday 2015-01-16 22:54, Yamaban wrote:
Now, with sysVinit scripts is was easy to go beyond pure 'standard' (start|stop|restart|reload|status) and implement options as-needed. E.g. a clear-cache option for a proxy.
Yeah, see where that got us. That clear-cache command would only be supported on a handful of distributions (hardly more than one). Howto documents would have to explain one different method for every distribution. Remember rcNAME, "start-stop-daemon" and "service". Or "chkconfig" and "insserv"[*]. One available on Debian, the other on Fedora -- or something in that ballpark. Good riddance. [[*] Some of those were standardized by LSB, but I would claim it hardly got used in day-to-day use.]
Now there is a 'replacement' that is forced down our throats, that is NOT clear and easy to understand, that has masses of missing features,
Don't forget all the missing features of sysvinit.
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