> Ah yes, the good old days some people are mysteriously nostalgic about.
> who knows if all the services will come back after a reboot. Better not risk it.
This is not a story about how bad sysV was but about how people happily disregarded any sort of infrastructure rigor "in the good old days". Applying upgrades that would break their system then wrote workarounds on top of others for those who also didn't care to test the builds, was considered reasonable. This isn't considered a good plan today and it wasn't a good plan then.
> who knows if all the services will come back after a reboot. Better not risk it.
This is not a story about how bad sysV was but about how people happily disregarded any sort of infrastructure rigor "in the good old days". Applying upgrades that would break their system then wrote workarounds on top of others for those who also didn't care to test the builds, was considered reasonable. This isn't considered a good plan today and it wasn't a good plan then.