[systemd-devel] show journalctl while stopping?

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 7:36 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
wrote:

>
>
> Am 23.01.20 um 18:32 schrieb Roger Pack:
> > Forgive me if this is too naive, but would it be possible for
> > systemctl to "immediately start outputting logs" (journalctl type
> > output) while it is in the middle of running a command?  Ex: while
> > running "systemctl stop my_server" it could show the logs so we could
> > see what is going on?  I do miss that from the /etc/init.d days and
> > feel so blind with systemctl now.
> > Thoughts?
>
> and why don't you jsut write a shell alias or simple wrapper for such
> trivial tasks?
>
> frankly "systemctl restart" hast to shut up because otherwise it would
> trigger cron mails and when you have to write a special option anyways
> you can also wirte an alias and be done
>

I don't think cron jobs are very high on systemctl's priority list.
Certainly lower than interactive use by the sysadmin. And if you actually
have to write a cron job, you can just add --quiet and be done?

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Mantas Mikulėnas
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