[systemd-devel] Log unit's name instead of unit's description?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 05.09.2014 um 19:30 schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Jakub Klinkovský <j.l.k at gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>> What is the reason behind logging unit's description? Consider the following
>> journal message (from `journalctl -b`):
>>
>>   systemd[1]: Starting A secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server...
>>
>> It shows some fancy stuff about the started unit, but does not point to any
>> particular unit as the description is ambiguous at best.
> 
> It is somewhat expected that Description= will just have a
> more-readable version of the program's name, rather than some useless
> marketing. (Arch has "Apache Web Server" in its httpd.service.) I
> guess the service name also wasn't added because it'd make some lines
> really long, and because the journal can be queried for it anyway (-o
> verbose, etc)

that don't change the fact that a desription is just a description
and systemd lacks a name value - logging like "starting start stops
whatever service" and "staretd start stops whatever service" is odd

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