What is "systemd"?
While reading through the code for Ruby's Sidekiq library, I came across the "integrate_with_systemd" method. I was curious what "systemd" referred to, and this post is the result of what I learned while Googling around.
systemd vs. launchd
The first thing I realized when I was researching systemd is that it doesn't exist on Unix systems, only on Linux systems. In my terminal, I tried calling "systemctl" (the executable command for systemd), but I got a "command not found" error. Macs have a similar program called "launchctl", but
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