> And the fact that "systemctl start blahd.service" exits successfully even if blahd didn't actually start because a misconfigured blahd not starting is "correct" makes me want to burn the server room down from time to time.
we had tens of thousands of init scripts where we fixed that exact problem with init scripts that were delivered with distro. It's not systemd problem and if anything systemd made it better.
> And nondeterministic service initialization is absolutely Broken and Wrong.
if your dependencies are wrong but init system works you were just lucky.
If you gonna complain, complain about no option to tell machine to shut down in a given time interval which means "my UPS got 5 minutes left pls turn off" is unsolvable under systemd unless you go thru every single unit file in distro and override their timeouts.
I mean, 25 years ago I don't think any shop used the distro-supplied init scripts; those were just a skeleton you used to get the system into a state where you could edit them.
we had tens of thousands of init scripts where we fixed that exact problem with init scripts that were delivered with distro. It's not systemd problem and if anything systemd made it better.
> And nondeterministic service initialization is absolutely Broken and Wrong.
if your dependencies are wrong but init system works you were just lucky.
If you gonna complain, complain about no option to tell machine to shut down in a given time interval which means "my UPS got 5 minutes left pls turn off" is unsolvable under systemd unless you go thru every single unit file in distro and override their timeouts.