Re: How Unix manages processes in userland

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 07/12/2013 1:08, Aaron B. wrote:
> As a sysadmin, I often care less about the internal details, and more
> about what a system provides. What I want to see:
>
> 1) Easy to define/install a new service
> 2) Easy to manipulate a service (enable/disable/restart/etc)
> 3) Easy to query a service's state.
>
> IMHO, #3 is the ticky part. People often assume things are 'up' or
> 'down' and ignore the scope of all the other failures in between.

Well, from a service management perspective it's either up or down.
It may have an intermediate state of starting, but that still falls in 
the down category.

Anything else would be a configuration error of the service, which is 
outside the scope of this discussion.

Thanks

Roy