[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Scott Dorsey]

Grant Taylor  <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>
>I hear people say that systemd and smf are service management things and 
>that traditional SysV style init scripts aren't.  But they never explain 
>why the former is and the latter isn't.

The one thing that smf and systemd have is the ability to watch a process
and restart it if it crashes.  Many people find this very important, although
personally I suspect that if your service is crashing a lot that you should
fix it rather than rely on something else to restart it.

Something else that they do provide is automated management of dependencies
to start everything in order without the admin having to manually set the
order of execution up.  This can be a benefit and if done well can also speed
boot times, but I am not sure that this is necessary to call a startup
mechanism a service manager.

>I was genuinely trying to learn something.

This is not likely to be a thread in which anyone will learn much, I am sorry
to say.
--scott
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