Arch systemd migration

You can symlink /sbin/init to /bin/systemd with this command run as root on your Linode:

ln -sv /bin/systemd /sbin/init

This command will fail if /sbin/init already exists, so if you still have sysvinit installed, you'll want to either stash its init somewhere, or uninstall it. As always, before making major changes to your Linode that could potentially break everything, make a backup of important data :)

Rather than bustin up your init yourself, you may want to use this:

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/ … ysvcompat/">http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/systemd-sysvcompat/

sysvcompat <3

To be clear, Arch has not announced any plans regarding dropping sysvinit. The currently announced plans are to transition so that systemd is a first class citizen on Arch, and make adjustments as needed to do that.

We'll likely see sysvinit deprecated in future for new installations and then potentially replaced for existing systems, but that's not official at this time.

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