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From: Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Faking a TTY on a pipe/socketpair
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:20:25 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 20:07:58 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:
>
>> On 2024-12-11, Nicolas George <nicolas$george@salle-s.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jim Jackson , dans le message <slrnvlk56u.2qa.jj@iridium.wf32df>, a
>>>  ??crit??:
>>>>
>>>> My God, how did we all manage running services before systemd came
>>>> along?
>>>
>>> Badly, with services that have crashed and nobody noticed for weeks.
>> 
>> People keep saying that. But in my experience services were run as
>> efficiently as they seem to be run today. Perhaps the team I worked in
>> knew what it was doing :-)
>
> How many custom services were you running on a single machine, just out of 
> curiosity?

What do you mean by custom? There were database services, web-based 
services, information servers other than web all running on 2 big 
servers. The infrastructure services (file servers, DNS, NTP, DHCP, 
boot servers, automatic backup etc etc) were split between 2 servers 
with backup and failover. not sure how you'd classify our mail service, 
as infrastructure or custom, but it was far from bog-standard.