Systemd on vivid beta

[Colin Law]

On 9 March 2015 at 11:16, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:56:25 +0000
> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone here know enough about systemd to answer a question?
>>
>> Vivid is changing over to it today.  I have some custom init.d scripts
>> dating back to before even upstart came along, which have been working
>> fine.  With the change to systemd should these just continue to work
>> ok or do I need to do anything?
>>
>> I ask because one of them is playing up.  I can go into more detail
>> but would like to know first whether it should just work.
>
> There are a few notes at this link, but it seems mostly to concern
> upstart scripts. In it there are a couple of gotcha's, however, maybe
> you can find something there?
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers
>
> It should be fairly simple to write systemd .service files to run SysV
> init scripts, maybe you can find what you need at the above link.

Yes, thanks, I had seen that, as you said it is mainly for conversion
from upstart.  I don't really want to start learning systemd at the
moment unless I really need to.

Colin