[systemd-devel] Confused about failed service reporting

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 03/26/2012 07:33 AM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> A few weeks ago, yum-updatesd died due to the following bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709315
>
> This is exactly something that we would like systemd to report
> us.  However, while interacting with servers with the dead
> yum-updatesd, we found it didn't show up when we ran
> systemctl --failed.  When we ran normal diagnostics, we got:
>
> [root at better-mousetrap ~]# systemctl status yum-updatesd.service
> yum-updatesd.service - YUM Package  Update Service
>        Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/yum-updatesd.service)
>        Active: inactive (dead)
>        CGroup: name=systemd:/system/yum-updatesd.service
>
> What's up with that? (Is this yet another "upgrade systemd,
> and all ye problems will go away?")

Sorry not following what's being asked for here?

Systemd can report to you when service fail via email script if you 
configure and write one to do so and the failed output is no better or 
worse then the previous behaviour in Fedora as in when you ran service 
yum-updatesd status you would just get [Failed] in red letters which 
arguably is even less informative than that.

And the relevant bug referred to has nothing to do with systemd

JBG