On 10/14/2018 4:23 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Throughout Jessie and Stretch, I have been running Debian without > systemd as the init system. If systemd became installed by accident, I > promptly removed it in favor of sysvinit. >
If I understand correctly, on a fresh install of Debian systemd is purge.systemd. If yes, why not going for a Debian derivative that does not include systemd per default: https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=All&basedon=Debian¬basedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=Not+systemd&status=Active#simple Or were all your hosts upgraded from a version where systemd was not installed? -- John Doe