6 engineers on Hacker News describe using SysVinit first-hand: 1 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“SysV-init sucks in many ways, it's well known, and I can personally attest to that.”
regret · personal · nine_k · 2023-03-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We removed few thousand lines of SysV init scripts from our configuration management when we migrated to systemd.”
regret · production · ilyt · 2023-02-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But sysvinit and Upstart both sucked for various reasons, and we had tried to work around the warts.”
regret · production · placatedmayhem · 2022-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our reasons for doing this are we run stripped-down systems that go for years (even decades)”
endorse · production · hazeii · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If they are daemonic, they get /etc/init.d/ start/stop scripts that have been tested.”
neutral · production · dsr_ · 2023-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using sysvinit for a very long time and I have no concept of what those bugs might be.”
neutral · personal · e40 · 2014-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?