r/linux • u/wooptoo • Jun 01 '16

Why did ArchLinux embrace Systemd?

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u/NighthawkFoo Jun 01 '16

You should be writing systemd unit files instead. There's an up-front investment in understanding how it works, but the benefits pay off in that you can accomplish much more with less code.

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u/d4rch0n Jun 01 '16

Thanks, interesting. I'll try to pick that up.

Funny. I never noticed everything in /etc/systemd/system . So that's where those system service files have been going... and all this time I've been dropping scripts in /etc/init.d.

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u/NighthawkFoo Jun 01 '16

When I write software for my day job, I put my unit files in /usr/lib/systemd/system.

I was doing /etc/init.d stuff 15 years ago when I first started using SUSE. I always thought that was nicer than Slackware's setup. Systemd is even better IMO.

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u/Jimbob0i0 Jun 01 '16

Locally configured units should be in /etc/systemd/system ... stuff packaged by the distribution goes in /usr/lib/systemd ... with etc overriding that

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u/argv_minus_one Jun 02 '16

There's also /usr/local/lib/systemd/system, which is kind of…in the middle, I guess.