[systemd-devel] [PATCH v2] systemctl: introduce --now for enable, disable and mask

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 15.05.15 10:54, Dimitri John Ledkov (dimitri.j.ledkov at intel.com) wrote:

> On 15 May 2015 at 10:47, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 15.05.15 10:22, Tomasz Torcz (tomek at pipebreaker.pl) wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:54:10AM +0200, jsynacek at redhat.com wrote:
> >> > From: Jan Synacek <jsynacek at redhat.com>
> >>
> >>   Shouldn't "systemctl preset" be enhanced with --now, too?
> >
> > I think that might be confusing. Currently preset both enables and
> > disables units. Translating that to actual activation might mean that
> > it would start precisely the units that are enabnled, and stop all
> > others. But that's hardly what you want in real-life, since we always
> > end up starting more units than are strictly enabled.
> 
> preset-all does for all units, but e.g.
> 
> $ systemclt preset --now myunits-*.service
> 
> Makes sense. As in, enable/disable these set of units as per presets,
> and stop/start them to match the presets whilst doing so.

True. I would merge take a patch for that.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat