Systemd

I - Intro During my help-desk, service-desk… and something-desk days, where tasks were basically a wide variety of technical interventions with no end users but internal company employees, I used to watch SysAdmins perform some of their tasks on Windows or Linux servers. Sometimes I even got to run them myself. I wanted to learn more about Linux. I was curious about how they made their own programs run as a service, for example....

I - Intro Continuing from the previous post about GNU/Linux system startup, this time I’ll tell you about services. How many times did I struggle with the “print spooler” service in Windows! If you worked in IT starting in Help Desk, Service Desk, or similar positions in corporate environments… you’ve suffered through it too -_- As for Linux… well, the concept is similar but of course it has its differences....