[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd v39

[Michal Schmidt]

On 01/25/2012 05:34 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Michal Schmidt (mschmidt at redhat.com) said:
>> We could make "systemctl start ..." dump a few of the service's
>> lines from the journal before exiting.
>
> At that point you're then trying to define heuristics about what the proper
> value for 'a few' is, and then you're guaranteed to get it wrong for some
> set of services. Not sure it's worth the effort.

'A few' could be defined as everything the service wrote between the 
time we told it to start and the time it finished starting (or failed).
systemd has the timestamps. Or these important events can be found in 
the journal as well.

Michal