If you don't check, you may find that you are working for an unethical jackass after you move across the country to take the job..

I wish you were right but I get people trying convince me of these things in person and then complain I don't take them seriously.

My least favorite is an otherwise functional guy who believes that Obama is a gay Muslim secretly married to a transvestite (Michelle) who plans to take his role as "The Beast" and under the direction of the Antichrist, declare martial law before the end of his term and round up all non Muslims and put them in Internment camps already being prepared by FEMA.

I don't understand how he manages to get dressed without drooling all over himself let alone hold down a job.

I've had that problem with systemd, you wait 5 mins until it comes up or you can boot with init=/bin/bash and make whatever changes you need to.

No need whatsoever for a rescue CD.

It wouldn't be the first time I've seen malware installed via compromised wordpress. Wordpress has had more than a few vulnerabillities over the years and most people who install it just forget about it after and never install security updates. To top it off, wordpress has a web accessible world writeable folder so any exploit easily becomes shell level access.

On the plus side, most of the spammers never even try to gain root.

And then slow devices cause the server to fail to start correctly every time? There is a reason that so many init.d startup scripts had sleep statements. It makes sense to argue that the timeout is too long but it make no sense that things shouldn't wait for things they depend on. That's the whole point of "dependency based booting", most of the systemd alternatives do the exact same thing.

it does not halt and wait for a rescue cd. It waits for the set timeout to expire(5 mins afik) but dont let facts get in the way of a good troll.

This is the correct behaviour. If a filesystem doesn't mount, it will hold off on anything that depends on the filesystem working. I can't imagine why you would want it any other way.

I have yet to see a good Linux blu-ray player. The result is that I simply rip the blu-ray with makemkv and then run the result through handbrake to bring the size down a bit. This has the added advantage that my quad core xbmc box ($110 CAD) lets me browse though my movie collection on my NAS using my remote and that's far less effort than swapping discs. This also came in handy when I was in Spain and Amazon sent me the US region movie instead of the EU region movie and the blasted thing wouldn't play in my EU locked blu ray player.

I can't tell if you are stupid or just a troll but I'll respond anyways. One of Systemds improvements is that it handles process (apache etc)reloads. One advantage to this, is that things are now restarted in the exact same environment (path, variables, CWD etc) as when the system is booting. The next advantage is that networking restart no longer needs to be run with nohup when done remotely, it just works now instead of dropping the interface and then dying.

This means that if say, a webdev or a junior admin makes a typo in a daemon and it fails to start you can now just use journalctl to see the output that previously went to console.

Less often(usually when I'm doing the initial setup), are things like iscsi, glusterfs etc that choked hard under the old init system and still need a bit (although easier) tweaking with systemd.

So all of the distros use the same network config as Redhat? Same /etc/sysconfig path? Same RPM package manager?

What is happening is that Systemd is waiting for either the daemon to come up, or a timeout before it continues. If you wait about 5 minutes, the boot will resume. (which I agree is an annoyingly long default) The downside of doing things the way they were before was that if something was slow to mount, the system would blindly continue which is why I've seen a ton of boot scripts with sleep statements in them.

Sendmail took a ton of revisions before it was secure because it wasn't written with security in mind. Qmail, Postfix and Exim haven't had any near the number of problems sendmail had.

This is just FUD.
1 Systemd is modular with components running with each componant running with the least amount of privilate to do it's job.
2. The network components not a part of the core project and are very optional.
3. I have yet to see any distro enable the network components at all, let alone by default.

As far as you know? I have already seen audits of the code for both correctness and security.

The same Solaris who dumped sysv bootup scripts a few years back in favor of their shiny new system that's very similar to systemd? Good plan!

Who keeps modding these posts up? Using "journalctl -f" to view output from stderr to debug why daemons aren't starting is a feature I use often as part of my job. If there was ever a version of systemd that didn't log stderr, it was a short lived bug.

It is actually. Systemd has mount unit files that can specify before and after dependencies so I can tell it I want it to load after the network and daemons they depend on but before things like ftp, apache etc.

This is actually a problem I needed to solve.

It worked.. except when it didn't. I should not have to hack my init scripts just because I have iSCSI or Clustered Fileystem mounts. Init was made in a time when the boot dependencies are more flat and don't do well at all when your setup requires network+daemon before the filesystem can be mounted.