Red Hat's response to my system-config-samba rhel6 issue

[Richard Pieri]

On Dec 21, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
>> ...systemd...is based on launchd concepts and has even expanded on
>> many of them.
> 
> Ubuntu's Upstart is event-based as well. It is a core feature:

True enough, okay, Linux has event-based service startup... but... both seem to be stuck in the sysvinit world.  They're both replacements for init... and that's the philosophical anchor: they're seen and developed as init replacements rather than the "one daemon to rule them all" providing a unified service launch system.  That's where I think launchd and SMF are superior even when they are themselves flawed (SMF is cumbersome and launchd lacks Vixie cron's flexibility).  Both need to stop being drop-in replacements for init, and both need to seriously subsume all service startup responsibilities.  Until then they just make service startup more fragmented than what we've had for 30+ years.

Bonus points for unifying their configurations and making either a drop-in replacement for the other.

Apologies if that seems scatter-brained.  Score one for the anti-histamines.

--Rich P.