>>     Come to think about it, if the problem was that their rc.local
>>     was failing somewhere then they should be able to see that in the
>>     output of systemctl or journalctl.

>>     Assuming they're using systemd, of course.  :-)
> Not really. Its not just me, systemd is not considered to be safe for
> use by any security expert I know of (and I know more than I wish...)
> a legendary Bitcoin core developer (luke-jr) is explicitly encouraging
> the switch to Devuan, while many already use it to run full nodes
> using bitcoin-knots. One day we may even release a Devuan-based distro