[systemd-devel] List all available units

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Václav Pavlín at 09/08/12 08:39 did gyre and gimble:
> Lennart Poettering píše v St 08. 08. 2012 v 18:31 +0200:
>> If we present the user with a list like this we probably should show a
>> tree view of some kind since the unit file getty at .service might get
>> instantiated a couple of times as "getty at tty1.service" and so on, and
>> hence is in a tree-like relationship. 
> 
> I like the idea of the tree view, but I cannot imagine how it can help
> to solve autocompletion problem. If I get it right, getty at .service is
> template file, which cannot be manually instantiated, so it can be
> omitted from the output (User cannot do anything with it, right?).

A user can actually type "systemctl enable getty at .service" as it has the
following:

[Install]
Alias=getty.target.wants/getty at tty1.service

Thus "enabling" the template unit will actually configure an
instantiation of it.

Col


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