[Cialug] Ubuntu's New Init

[Thomas Kula]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 05:44:30PM -0500, Todd Walton wrote:
> 
> Yeah, but this is like having one piece of software that copies files
> to ext3 filesystems, and a different one that copies to reiser
> filesystems.  The Unix Way is to have a tool that does one thing and
> does it well.  Consolidating at and cron and initd and inetd into one
> more capable init system is actually bringing these things *closer* to
> The Unix Way.

I'd have a lot more confidence in launchd if it would actually
run my "cron" jobs when I tell it to run them, not at when I tell
them to run them + how much time the machine slept for when it 
last slept.

That one caused me all kinds of grief when I had to handle lab
nonsense. I hope they have that one fixed....


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