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Re:System Down: A systemd-journald exploit by josteink on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:50PM (#18877385)
But systemd is more than just init. It replaces for instance daemontools, restartd or monit.

Are you saying you can trivially audit those?

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Re:System Down: A systemd-journald exploit by lousken on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:48PM (#18877983)
Does it fully replace monit? Could you link me more info? From what I could find I didn't see anything like free disk space warnings, web interface etc.
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Re:System Down: A systemd-journald exploit by josteink on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:04AM (#18882561)
> Does it fully replace monit?

Not fully, no but as far as I can tell, it has overlapping responsibilities.

My main thought when mentioning it, was automatic restart of services in the case of failure.

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Re:System Down: A systemd-journald exploit by maemilius on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:51PM (#18878007)
That's a fair point. However, the parent was responding to whether init - in particular - had been audited. So, bringing up other, larger projects that systemd subsumes is a bit disingenuous, imo.
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