As much as I dislike some of systemd's attributes, there is one feature that would be very beneficial in embedded devices. I found this while writing a service control file for a Python script that runs on my Pi 2. systemd has a watchdog. If you enable the watchdog in the service control file for a particular service, then systemd will expect that service to "check in" at some interval (iirc 5 seconds, but may be adjustable). If the service doesn't check in, then it is killed and restarted.
Yes, of course it's possible to write a separate userspace watchdog. But then what if your watchdog dies? At least with systemd, if it dies, your whole system is dead and you have other things to worry about. :) On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: > For what it's worth, there is no plan to abandon RSEL6 support > before the upstream support ends. Systemd is too much for some > to come to terms with (I tolerate it - grudgingly), and EL6 is > a pretty good release, so I expect it is here to stay at least > for a while. OTOH, whether any of us will still have SheevaPlugs > running EL6 sticking around in "production" by 2023 is debatable. > > Let's see how it goes, shall we? :) > > Gordan > > > > On 2015-06-22 17:14, Bjarne Saltbaek wrote: >> >> I still plan to work on RSEL6. >> Once my Koji and git is running I plan to nag Gordan every time >> upstream release a new EL6 update :P >> >> BR, >> Bjarne >> >> On 22-06-2015 00:46, Tracy Reed wrote: >>> >>> Wow...I haven't checked in on Redsleeves in many months and thought >>> perhaps the >>> project had called it quits after RHEL6. I've installed Fedora 20 from >>> http://www.odroid.in/fedora-20/ on my latest Odroid purchases (we use >>> them for >>> various general utility purposes) because even though Fedora 20 is out of >>> date >>> it is fresher than RSEL6 for the most part. But I really should get back >>> to >>> using a long term supported distro like RSEL. >>> >>> If anyone is seriously interested in collaborating on getting good >>> installation >>> instructions written up and posted to the wiki for getting RSEL7 onto the >>> Odroid U2/U3 I would be happy to send you a board to keep. I've got some >>> rough >>> instructions we wrote up ages ago for RSEL6 which we, regrettably, never >>> ended >>> up putting on the wiki because they need significant cleanup and >>> refinement. >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
