Re: [Firebird-devel] official install script on ubuntu 10.10 does have some errors , must be corrected (I will add a bug later today)

[marius a. p. <ma...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Alex Peshkoff <pes...@ma...> wrote:
>  On 11/03/10 02:32, Philippe Makowski wrote:
>> Alex Peshkoff  [2010-10-29 16.24] :
>>>> Also in we have to replace System V style init scripts with upstart
>>>> jobs in Ubuntu ...
>>> Hops, one more format of daemon startup. Sometimes I start to think
>>> better about windows with it's well documented services.
>> OpenSuse and Fedora are moving to Systemd
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
>> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
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> This is much more serious change - this is not another format of startup
> scripts, but replacement of init (pid 1). Looks very interesting, but
> unfortunately is still in experimental state. And requires reworking of
> not only startup script (appears it's not needed at all), but daemon
> code too, like getting socket to listen from environment instead opening
> it ourself. Quite possible that sooner or later we will not need other
> startup types except systemd.

seems that it will be in fedora 15  by default
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList
with the fail over to upstart if it will not be so stable and removed
from features lists

I wish they have made an init systems based on python scripts and
replace the actual bashisms
These new init systems are mostly for Desktop systems (booting < 15s)

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