[systemd-devel] "Inactive/dead" services that are enabled are indistinguishable from unused or oneshot services

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod at gmail.com> wrote:
> Something like "systemctl --enabled" would certainly be much more
> useful for such cases than the current "systemctl --all", yet
> there will still be a lot of "oneshot" stuff, which are supposed to be
> dead, so a separate state for "!oneshot && enabled && exited" services
> like "stopped" (in place of "inactive") and maybe a view like "systemctl
> --stopped" would be of a great help from my sysadmin's perspective.
>
> I understand that there's already a looong TODO, but maybe it's possible
> to cram such systemctl view option(s) somewhere in that list?
>

I was vaguely thinking about adding generic selection option to
replace current ad-hoc ones, something like

--state=enabled,!exited

or even allowing generic filtering on specific property, like

--query Type=socket,dbus

The latter is probably the way to go as it can be used to implement
any custom query. And add better output format control of course :) It
just needs some proper, but not too complicated, syntax.

Is it good enough for TODO?