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For a long time, the services handler called init was responsible for the initialization of services after a reboot. However, with each new release of Linux, init started to look more and more like an antique. One of the fundamental issues with init is that it runs in a linear fashion, which is hardly efficient when parallelization is possible. The chosen replacement after some debate was . In this chapter, I run through how to interact with your systemd services and explore any pitfalls that you may encounter with the newer versions of Linux that use systemd.
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Binnie, C. (2016). Supercharged systemd. In: Practical Linux Topics. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1772-6_3
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