I'm not sure how systemd does it, but in my vision, there should be two different states for the service: the *wanted* state, and the *current* state.
The wanted state is what is set by the administrator when she runs a command such as "rc thisrunlevel". The command should set all the services in "thisrunlevel" in the "wanted up" state. The current state is exactly what it says: is the service actually alive or not, ready or not? A service manager's job is to perform service state transitions until the current state matches the wanted state - or an unrecoverable error happens, in which case the admin should have easy access to the current state in order to diagnose and fix the problems. -- Laurent _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
