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Author: Andrew Bower
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To: Curtis Maurand
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Error: systemd required.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 12:07:06PM -0500, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote:
> I remember once writing a bash script called systemctl that simply ran
> service scripts based on systemctl commands.


Sounds like the 'systemctl' package in Devuan!

https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.html?c=package&q=systemctl=1.4.4181-1.1

> It worked well enough to trick a couple of apps to think systemd was
> there.


The canonical way to detect systemd, however, is:

[ -d /run/systemd/system ]

Andrew