On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 11:55:07AM +0000, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote:
> There was program sysd2v.sh (v0.3), a bash script, to convert a systemd
> 'service file to a sysvinit equivalent. In the past I've found that it
> worked if the service file is fairly straightforward.
>
> When I search I'm also finding a python script that claims to do the
> same, and maybe more, at:
> https://github.com/0xalwayslucky/Sysd2v
>
> I can't test it on your .service file as what you have provided is only
> a snippet and so incomplete, but it does seem to produce credible
> outputs on some examples on my system.

If you are going to go down the conversion route, I suggest unit-translator[1],
also packages as utrans in excalibur and ceres[2]

Mark

[1] https://git.devuan.org/leepen/unit-translator/

[2] https://pkginfo.devuan.org/utrans