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Operating Systems Linux Where are people landing on the sytemd debate? Post 302928297 by cjcox on Wednesday 10th of December 2014 02:45:01 PM

12-10-2014

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As far as I know people are either "for" systemd, or "against" systemd.

:-)

Systemd is a highly specialized and somewhat limited approach at solving problems that had previously not been handled with things like sysvinit, upstart, etc. The implementation in many ways is like somebody telling you that he's solved all of your programming problems with the most complete set of Visual Basic code you've ever seen.

My guess is that systemd will be replaced by something better in less than 5 years (that replacement could be "son of systemd", much like grub2 vs grub1). And of course, there will be much complaining/rejoicing....

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systemd-hostnamed.service

SYSTEMD-HOSTNAMED.SERVICE(8)                                 systemd-hostnamed.service                                SYSTEMD-HOSTNAMED.SERVICE(8)

NAME

       systemd-hostnamed.service, systemd-hostnamed - Host name bus mechanism

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-hostnamed.service

       /lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-hostnamed is a system service that may be used as a mechanism to change the system's hostname.  systemd-hostnamed is automatically
       activated on request and terminates itself when it is unused.

       The tool hostnamectl(1) is a command line client to this service.

       See the developer documentation[1] for information about the APIs systemd-hostnamed provides.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), hostname(5), machine-info(5), hostnamectl(1), sethostname(2)

NOTES

        1. developer documentation
           https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed

systemd 237                                                                                                           SYSTEMD-HOSTNAMED.SERVICE(8)