Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger(a)gmail.com) said:
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:00:37PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger(a)gmail.com) said:
> > 1) A system admin unfamiliar with systemd installs apache and sees that
> > there's an /etc/init.d/httpd file. He runs /etc/init.d/httpd start to
> > startup the service unaware that when systemd reboots the service it will be
> > using the unit file and not the sysvinit script.
>
> /etc/init.d/<foo> start redirects to systemctl; systemd will then start
> whichever of the units is 'active' - in this case, it would be the systemd
> service both before and after reboot.
How does this work?
Transparently; if an init.d script is called with 'start', 'stop',
'reload',
'restart', or 'condrestart' (or any synonyms thereof), it's silently
redirected to systemctl if systemd is in use. See the top of
/etc/init.d/functions for details.
Does this mean that init scripts have to be rewritten
to do something like this?
No, no initscript changes are required.
Bill