Linux Distributions are my friend

But sometimes, with friends like these....

I think, given time, I could learn to like systemd better than System V. Once one gets past the knee in the curve of "what the hell is this?"

I'm setting up a replacement mail server using many programs not packaged for openSuSE. And openSuSE is double-timing down the trail of systemd. So, as the last step of getting all the daemons playing together correctly, I need to make sure they all get starting on boot and in the right order. Three of the daemons don't behave nicely when the database is off line. (A bug I might decide to try my hand at fixing at some point.)

Here I sit staring man pages and web pages and source code. Slowly the systemd concepts are sinking in and the path to various bits and pieces are visible.

And today, I wrote my first four unit scripts. They work albiet clumsily. Tomorrow, I refine the things and read the manuals in more depth.

I think I finally have all the pieces to make the new server work. It was a good day.