[systemd-devel] Verbose output option when starting daemons manually

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 08.11.12 18:23, William Giokas (1007380 at gmail.com) wrote:

> All,

Heya,

> I have been using systemd for a few months now, and I must say, it is a
> great init system. I myself am no coder, else I would attempt to write
> something to do just this. One not-dealbreaking thing that I do find
> lacking is a verbose option for `systemctl start <unit>`, essentially
> running `journalctl -f -u <unit>` (and possibly for multiple dependent
> units as well). For most services, I feel like this would be a line or
> two of output just saying "It worked!" or "It broke!" but for services
> like netcfg@, or services that start dependencies, it could be useful to
> see what's getting started and how it's getting started. Again, feel free
> to ignore me, I don't know how feasible or practical this would be, but
> it seems like it would be useful.
> 
> Again, sorry that I cannot put something together myself to at least
> show you. 

I have added to the TODO list that we should have a mode where systemctl
start/stop/... show in a single line what they did.

Lennart

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