[systemd-devel] WISHLIST: systemd git-like CLI/ui/command interface

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Zenaan Harkness at 22/11/12 13:30 did gyre and gimble:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no>
> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:12:16 +0100
> Subject: Re: WISHLIST: systemd git-like CLI/ui/command interface
> To: Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net>
> 
> ]] Zenaan Harkness
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Not sure where to send this. I emailed what might be LP.
>> Pls use as appropriate.
>>
>> When I see
>> systemctl status ...
>> systemd-journalctl

This is now just called "journalctl" since systemd v45

There is also "loginctl" (which used to be called "systemd-loginctl".

>> systemd-analyze ...

This is quite a specialist tool, not really used on a day-to-day basis
by admins.

>> systemd-cgls

As is this.

>> it looks like a messy version of what git does (git ls, git add, git
>> clone, etc).
>> Git started that way too, and eventually brought sanity to the
>> git-world with the top-level cli-ui as we have today.
>>
>> I suggest systemd ought do the same, preferably sooner rather than
>> later (it is still early days for many distros, eg such as Debian
>> which I am on).

I don't think this really applies here. The day-to-day commands are
really systemctl, journalctl and loginctl (although the last one is
likely not often used).

The other commands are really not often used which is very unlike git
when I regularly use the different commands.

So I don't think this kind of wrapper command is really needed IMO.

Col



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