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Systemd

Systemd

- [Narrator] systemd is a System and Service Manager that's used by most major Linux distros. It acts as the init system, starting processes as the system comes up, in order to provide a functional environment for the user. In this capacity, it replaces the older SysVinit system that was used on many Linux distros. It also controls the services that run in the background on the system. Software like the system logger, OpenSSH, a web server or file server, or anything else that we want to set to run and do something for us as it's needed. systemd provides a whole suite of tools and services to control and report on the state of the system. In this video, I want to focus on two primary aspects of using systemd: the capacity of systemd to be the controller for all processes on a system and it's ability to manage services in a unified way. When a system boots up, the boot loader gets the kernel into memory and then transfers control over to it and, at that point, we have a running system,…

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