[systemd-devel] show journalctl while stopping?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 23.01.20 um 19:32 schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 7:36 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net
> <mailto:h.reindl at thelounge.net>> wrote:
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>     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?

irrelevant - that's only one example

"I do miss that from the /etc/init.d days and feel so blind with
systemctl now" - where did classical initscripts show service logs at stop?

systemctl does with "systemctl status" including stdout/stderr

the point is that it has to be quiet unless there is something going
wrong - imagine your webserver logs to journald and spits out millions
of lines at restart