systemd and FreeRADIUS

[Bjørn Mork]

Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> writes:

>   The main reason is to delay loading it until the first RADIUS packet
> comes in.  This might help with CPU / disk contention at bootup time.

This might just be me, but one issue I have never worried about is the
boot time for our radius servers.  I assume that most of it will be lost
in fsck anyway, since it will probably be a few years since the last
time the file systems were mounted.

Or let me put it another way:  What possible features of systemd would
make it worth the job of changing customized startup scripts on a server
class system?  I see systemd as a destop tool, which will probably
progress the same way as (all?) other desktop system tools have:
 1) a lot of noise and "everone have to adapt to us"
 2) bugs
 3) more bugs
 4) a "new and better way" is found, and all developers move on
 5) goto 1

Remember hal anyone?

I think I'm going to wait a couple of years to see how this goes before
even considering systemd on any radius server.



Bjørn