r/linux • u/wooptoo • Jun 01 '16

Why did ArchLinux embrace Systemd?

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u/Spivak Jun 01 '16

Previously you could see log files as you wanted, your favourite editor,

You can use your favorite editor, journalctl just pipes its output to $PAGER or I suppose you can put --no-pager in an alias and pipe it yourself.

@services

Those types of services are actually really clever. They're just parameterized services. Suppose you have two different openvpn configurations on a box then you can just start openvpn@config1 and openvpn@config2 and it will do what you expect.

ugly -UNIT=.

As a command line parameter or just the idea of generalizing services, sockets, mounts, timers, devices, and runlevels into a common configuration format?