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[deleted] · 2023-05-02 07:47

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flexibeast · 2023-05-02 08:44

> did every BSD variant switch to systemd?

Er, what? What makes you ask that?

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atoponce · 2023-05-02 10:05

Systemd is not ported to BSD and likely never will be. It uses too
many Linux-specific system calls and APIs that aren't available in BSD
kernels to be functional.

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paprok · 2023-05-02 10:41

> every BSD variant switch to systemd

you're clearly confused.

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_merovech · 2023-05-02 10:45

Hahaha Berkeley Soystem D

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replikatumbleweed · 2023-05-02 12:04

lol, I'm relieved to see the responses.  I worked somewhere that had a
network appliance running pfSense, and I swear I saw syslogD and
others running.  Maybe it was a fever dream?  Also when I go to
distrowatch and search based on init system, at least from my phone, I
only got search results if Sys V was not selected, so I assumed the
worst.

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replikatumbleweed · 2023-05-02 12:06

I must have been mistaken, I thought I saw something different and
also distrowatch was giving me some strange results.  I guess it's all
still Sys V?

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replikatumbleweed · 2023-05-02 12:07

I got some very strange behavior out of the distrowatch website from
my phone, and the search behavior seemed to be indicating everything
was SystemD now, but thankfully I guesss something was just wrong.

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flexibeast · 2023-05-02 12:48

> syslogD

.... you know that not everything ending in 'd' is systemd-related,
right? The use of the 'd' in the \*n*x world to indicate a 'daemon'
dates back to 'dpd' (data-phone daemon) in 2nd edition Unix, 1972.
syslogd in particular long predates systemd; it first appeared in the
early 80s.

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replikatumbleweed · 2023-05-02 12:58

I am aware, I can't recall eidetically everything I saw running on an
appliance I touched once, over a year ago, but I just recall thinking
I saw other things too that made me concerned.  Thankfully, I guess I
can chalk it up to "I don't know what I saw"  because it clearly
wasn't systemD.

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atoponce · 2023-05-02 13:16

No. It's never been SysV. It's always been rc.d.

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replikatumbleweed · 2023-05-02 13:25

I was just looking around for something that compares SysV to rc.d,
I've got a few books with names like "Unix System V" and connected the
wrong dots, I guess they're not referring to specifically Bsd unixes.