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  • The only advantage I see is that it actually seems to keep a better handle on the status of the process/service. The old-style unit scripts would often get out of sync and not realize that a process had died, or if they did they would repeatedly respawn a service that would just die again. Maybe that was less of a problem in later years than I experienced earlier, but it was there.

    The whole init.d system felt very ad-hoc with every script working a little bit differently, giving different output styles, etc.













  • Hawke@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldKansas City
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    2 months ago

    can anyone comment how often that is used by people in the region?

    Frequently, though it’s mostly informal shorthand for “the greater Chicago metropolitan area”, you probably wouldn’t say “I live in Chicagoland” unless you were intentionally being vague.